Lottery Winner Jennifer Sabia To Build House In Vermont

Jennifer Sabia and her husband, Joe, live in Naugatuck, Connecticut. Retirement is in their near future and they plan to build a house in Vermont, where they would spend their retirement years. However, building that house was still a while away.

It's good to have dreams and goals for the future. However, sometimes those dreams could quickly change. That was the case for Jennifer Sabia in April of 2010. That's when she stopped into the 7-11 to pick up an instant scratch lotto ticket. She bought a game called $100,000,000 Diamond Mine. To win a prize in that game, you must scratch the playing surface and have one of your numbers match one of the winning numbers to win the prize shown. Here's what Jennifer said happened when she scratched: "When I saw the pair of 29's and $200,000 prize on the ticket I thought... no way!" Ya, Jennifer was a new lottery winner! That lottery money is what changed her dreams about building the house in Vermont; she and her husband will now be able to do it sooner rather than later!

Jennifer Sabia believes that everything happens for a reason. The day she won the lottery, she was on her way to do some grocery shopping. While on her way to the grocery store, she realized that she forgot her check-book. So she went back home to get it. While heading home, she stopped at the 7-11 to pick up a lottery ticket. That's when she won the $200,000. If she did not forget her check-book that day, she would not have won the lottery. That was the reason that she forgot her check-book that day - She was destined to win the lottery!

Aside from building her new house in Vermont, Jennifer Sabia also plans to invest some of the money in her grandchildren's education.

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