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21. A Big Lottery Winner
A 58-year-old grandmother in Massachusetts won one of
biggest prizes in U.S. history—$294 million. If she
taken the 26-year payout, Doris Stevens would have
$11 million a year for 26 years, before
.
Mrs. Stevens decided to take the lump sum
. People who take the lump sum get paid
60 days, but their total payment is reduced
almost 40 percent. Mrs. Stevens’s lump sum was
million, but after the federal tax was applied,
received $110 million. That’s the amount that Mrs.
got to put in her purse.
Recently divorced,
says that her ex-husband has already called her
ask about a “loan.” She laughed. “I wouldn’t
him a quarter to call the police if
was getting robbed. Let him borrow money from
new young girlfriend who makes him so happy.”
is she going to do with her windfall? “
, the first thing I'm going to do is
help out my children and grandchildren, of course.
, I hope to revolutionize the housecleaning industry.”
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for her entire life, Mrs. Stevens says she’s
to establish a National Housecleaner Helper Corporation. Her
would focus on giving seed money to various
and research firms to develop more efficient and
powerful housecleaning solvents and tools.
“When was the
time you saw something new in housecleaning?” Mrs.
asked. “They keep claiming they’ve invented new products
remove any and all blemishes, but they still
’t invented a product that removes an ordinary ballpoint
stain from your ordinary white shirt. This industry
some new products. I hope to revolutionize the
world, so that my ‘sisters’ will have an
time of it in the future. We’ve all
too much time on our hands and knees.
men had to do housecleaning, you know that
’d be inventing more powerful products every week.”
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