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84 year old Widow wins jackpot -- check out the last line!!

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84 year old Widow wins jackpot -- check out the last line!!

Widow, 84, Wins $10M at Atlantic City
By JOHN CURRAN


ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - For 84-year-old Josephine Crawford, the golden years just got a lot more golden. After a night playing the slot machines, the retired waitress widow was about to call it quits Tuesday when she hit a $10 million jackpot - the biggest in the history of casino gambling in Atlantic City.

Crawford, who gambles here twice a week and has been going to the casinos since the first one opened in 1978, had never won more than $1,000 before she came into the big money at the nickel slots at Harrah's Atlantic City.

The widow from Galloway Township lives with her daughter, drives a 2006 Honda Civic and has no plans to buy a new car or a new house. But she always wanted to see Italy, where her parents grew up, and wants to share the wealth with her two daughters, five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

``Somehow, I'll spend it. I'll spend it at the casino, and I might go to Vegas,'' she said.

The jackpot was won on a progressive slot machine linked to hundreds of others in Atlantic City's 12 casinos. The previous biggest Atlantic City jackpot was $8.5 million, won in 1994.

Crawford was playing alongside her 27-year-old granddaughter Alicia Weeks. After spending about $20 with no luck, Weeks suggested they move on. Crawford said no, she wanted to play $20 more. She was down to her last $5 in credits when she hit the jackpot.

It didn't take long for word of her luck to spread. Three men proposed to her, she said.

``Their wives were there, too!'' Crawford said. ``One of them told me, `You can have him.''


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Posted 4/19/06 11:19 PM
 
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Posted 4/19/06 11:20 PM
 

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Posted 4/19/06 11:26 PM
 

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HEY I WAS JUST AT HARRAHS.. thats what I get for playing dollar slots

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Posted 4/19/06 11:29 PM
 

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Posted 4/20/06 12:54 AM
 

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Posted 4/20/06 6:51 AM
 

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Posted 4/20/06 10:38 AM
 

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Posted 4/20/06 11:39 AM
 

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