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Bergen Woman Wins $1M Playing NJ Lottery Instant Game
Patricia Esposito purchased the ticket at Krauszer's Food Store in Saddle Brook.
SADDLE BROOK, N.J. — A Bergen County woman won $1 million playing a New Jersey Lottery instant game that was sold in the borough recently.
Patricia Esposito of Garfield won the money after buying a $150 Cash Spectacular instant game from the Krauszer's Food Store in Saddle Brook, lottery officials said in a news release.
"It was meant to be," said Esposito, who also won $20,000 playing an instant Bingo game in 1970. She used that money to go on a Disney cruise.
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Esposito goes home at lunchtime everyday to watch the midday lottery drawings. She even gives her children her non-winning tickets so they can enter them in the lottery's Million Dollar Replay Program.
"Hopefully one day they'll win," Esposito said.
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Patricia Esposito of Garfield — Courtesy of New Jersey Lottery
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