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Florida Powerball Winner, 84, Claims $590-Million Prize
ABC ^ | 06-05-2013 | Staff

Posted on 06/05/2013 12:34:44 PM PDT by Red Badger

Gloria C. Mackenzie held the most lucrative winning lottery ticket in American history.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: lottery; millionaires; powerball
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1 posted on 06/05/2013 12:34:44 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Good for her, hope she takes the one time payment


2 posted on 06/05/2013 12:35:33 PM PDT by blueyon (The U. S. Constitution - read it and weep)
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To: Red Badger

I need to read the book “ Anna Nicole Smith for men”


3 posted on 06/05/2013 12:35:56 PM PDT by 11th Commandment (http://www.thirty-thousand.org/)
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To: Red Badger

Damn her!

Good For her..


4 posted on 06/05/2013 12:36:23 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Red Badger

Thank God, I finally found you granma!


5 posted on 06/05/2013 12:36:24 PM PDT by taillightchaser (I'm going to become a criminal so I can keep my guns.)
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To: Red Badger

Yes, I am jelly!


6 posted on 06/05/2013 12:36:35 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: Red Badger

I’ve been in love with Gloria for minutes and minutes.....


7 posted on 06/05/2013 12:36:58 PM PDT by clintonh8r ("Europe was created by history. America was created by a philosophy." Baroness Thatcher)
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To: Red Badger

She’ll burn thru the cash in a few years living the fast life and probably end her days in a homeless shelter [/jk]


8 posted on 06/05/2013 12:37:36 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: Red Badger

Thank goodness an illegal alien didn’t win the jackpot...


10 posted on 06/05/2013 12:38:17 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: taillightchaser

You and how many other post cousins! Lol


11 posted on 06/05/2013 12:38:25 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then!)
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12 posted on 06/05/2013 12:38:57 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: Red Badger

Sent at 3:36 PM on Wednesday

The woman was also prepared to buy a ticket, but let 84-year-old Gloria step in front of him to be served first. Florida Lottery head Cynthia O’Connell told reporters that MacKenzie said:

...another lottery ticket buyer was very kind enough to let me go ahead of her.


13 posted on 06/05/2013 12:40:12 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

There is someone in Florida right now in agony over the random act of kindness.


14 posted on 06/05/2013 12:40:52 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: Red Badger

84 years old!!! LOL!! good for her. I wonder what her fine for Obamacare will be? LOL!!!


15 posted on 06/05/2013 12:41:42 PM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: Red Badger

She’s about to hear from relatives she never new she had.


16 posted on 06/05/2013 12:42:07 PM PDT by Poison Pill (Take your silver lining and SHOVE IT!)
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To: blueyon
Yes....lol...she DID take the one-time payment of $370,896,780.00.

And, listen to this...she was given cuts in line, at Publix, by a "nice lottery ticket buyer" to buy her winning Quick Pick ticket!! Imagine that!

17 posted on 06/05/2013 12:43:07 PM PDT by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs stay silent.)
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To: Red Badger

This thread is useless without pictures.


18 posted on 06/05/2013 12:43:48 PM PDT by Lazamataz ("AP" clearly stands for American Pravda. Our news media has become completely and proudly Soviet.)
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To: Lazamataz

She did not want her picture taken.........


19 posted on 06/05/2013 12:44:48 PM PDT by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
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To: RummyChick

If she could locate that person, it would be easy enough to throw a million their way.


20 posted on 06/05/2013 12:44:59 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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