It was my first time buying this ticket!
Yvette Orpiano won $200,000 on an EMERALD MINE 10X Scratch & Win ticket!
Orpiano purchased her winning ticket from the Co-op located at 405 MacLean Industrial Dr. in Stoughton.
“This was my first time buying this ticket,” she recalled. “I stood there and checked it after I’d purchased it and scanned it on the ticket checker three or four times—I just couldn’t believe it!”
The Stoughton resident said she was so surprised by the win that she asked the cashier to verify what she was seeing.
“There were so many zeroes to count!” she laughed. “She hugged me and we just couldn’t believe I had won!”
Once the win sank in, Orpiano shared the exciting news with her family.
“I called my husband and then my brother in the Philippines—they could hardly believe it when I called as well.”
One of the first things on her list is a long-awaited trip to visit family.
“I plan on visiting my brother and family back home because I haven’t seen them in nine years,” she smiled. “My youngest kids haven’t even met my family yet.”
Orpiano also plans to help her son with university expenses, pay some bills and put money away for the future.
“I was so happy that I was crying when I found out,” she said. “I’m just so thankful!”