Moorestown Teen Wins $1 Million with Help from 'Lottery Angel'
Two weeks after his avid lottery-playing grandmother died, a 19-year-old Moorestown High School grad won $1 million on a scratch-off ticket.
SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY -- I tend not to put much stock in things like fate or superstition. But the story of Moorestown, NJ's 19-year-old $1 million lottery winner may have just made a believer out of me. Though he and his family have chosen to remain anonymous, the young man’s mother shared her incredibly lucky son’s story with Patch. The winner, R.F., a 2011 Moorestown High School graduate, used to play scratch-offs with his grandmother growing up. She’d go to the store, pick up a few and have her grandson scratch them off. If she won even a couple dollars, she’d walk back to the store, buy more and repeat. But she never won anything more than a few dollars, said R.F.’s mother, A.F. R.F.’s grandmother passed away on Sept. 12. A.F. …
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Rob Scott
6:12 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012
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