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"We're going to Japan!!!" says the girl without cutting a hair, hugging her father. Jose (without accent) brings from school a colored Christmas like the ones that many schoolchildren will have made today in class to fill the hours of the last school day of the term. He doesn't know exactly what all the fuss about his family is all about, and he lets himself be interviewed by television channels in the middle of the street, on Avenida de Los Pinos de Dos Hermanas (Seville). Christmas has brought him an early gift and he takes advantage of his parents' drunkenness of emotions to wrest from them the commitment to travel to the country of manga, which is his passion. José María, the father, takes her in his arms to protect her shyness from the crowd and murmurs "we'll see." Virginia, wife of José María, mother of Jose (without accent) and two other children, will probably have the last word, which is why she is the one who, together with her friend Carolina, chose the winning number on the eve as if responding to a premonition. "We took the one with the eights (88,008), the ugliest of the ones that were left."

Near the school is the María Galiana high school, where Carolina's daughter studies. "Your mother's won the lottery, Diana." The 14-year-old girl couldn't quite believe what her classmates were telling her. On a break he managed to call his mother, who at that time was already attending to the televisions and holding back tears at the doors of La Gata Blanca, the lottery administration that this Friday has distributed 28 million euros of the Christmas jackpot in the neighborhood of Montequinto.

"Jump out of high school, Diana; Come over here, we've hit the jackpot," her mother shouted excitedly into the phone. "No, they miss me at the last minute," the teenager replied, demonstrating a temperance that was proof of lottery euphoria.

With the fat man in her hand and her feet on the ground, Carolina told the journalists about her daughter's reaction to the journalists, somewhere between surprised and proud, as if to say "like a stick, like a splinter". She, too, digests fortune with prudence. And through tears, he repeats that he would "change the winning ticket for a little more health" for his family, starting with his father. Maybe that's why it's hard for him to surrender completely to the celebration, because he senses that fortune is treacherous, as if he inevitably had to choose: either the luck of the hype or health. "And it's not that, Carolina, no. The money also helps with the doctors," says a neighbor who understands the emotional storm of the lucky woman.

Carolina has won 200,000 euros because she shares the tenth prize with Virginia, whom she met seven years ago when her children began to go to school together at the Poetas Andaluces school, just at the end of the avenue where this afternoon there is a commotion of reporters and curious people around La Gata Blanca.

In addition to Virginia and Carolina and José María and Jose (without accent), the little manga enthusiast, Marisol Garriga, who was the owner of the place until just a month and a half ago, when she transferred the business to the brothers Roberto and Francisco Molina, after more than 40 years working as a lottery winner, responds full of enthusiasm. "I left the purchased number and the champagne in the fridge; So, of course, I feel a bit like a godmother of the prize, even though the business is no longer mine." Marisol gave up her belongings to take care of her husband, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Once again, health is taking the lead over luck.

The province of Seville has received several other pinches of the Christmas jackpot up to a total sum of 122.4 million euros, going 60 million to Écija and another 26.4 million to the capital, specifically to the Alcampo shopping center in Ronda del Tamarguillo.

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The 88008 has left 80 million euros in Jaén thanks to the 200 tenths sold among the members of the cultural association Lola Torres. It is the first time that the Christmas jackpot falls in the capital of Jaén, says Ginés Doñaire in the EFE agency.

One of its members, Lola López, opted for that number knowing that it was not very attractive among her countrymen. "I have a Chinese daughter and there 8 is the luckiest number in Chinese culture, it is synonymous with prosperity, and that is why I chose it," this Jaén native, who was awarded a tenth, told EFE.

Rufino Cevidanes, 81, did not want to reveal how many tenths he had for himself and his children. "It's unbelievable that I won the lottery at my age," said Cevidanes, one of the founders of one of the most deeply-rooted folk groups in Andalusia, created in 1975.

The administration number 6 of Jaén, La Carrera, which has distributed 80 million of the jackpot, is located in the heart of the capital, next to the cathedral and next to the neighborhood that is now known as the Stars, due to the concentration of up to four Michelin-starred restaurants in just 200 meters.

"Now we can say that we are also the city of millions," said an exultant Manuel Aceituno, the owner of this administration that attracted customers every day with the soundtrack of this year's Lottery announcement.

"The money that has gone to the association, two tenths, we are going to reinvest in promoting the collective and in fixing the headquarters, which we have a building that is falling apart," said Desiré Amaro, president of this cultural collective that organizes the prestigious Folk del Mundo festival every year.

The first prize of the Extraordinary Christmas Lottery Draw, endowed with 4,000,000 euros for the series, has distributed 226,800,000 euros (576 tenths) throughout the eight Andalusian provinces, more than 200 million of them between those of Seville and Jaén.

  • El Gordo

    4.000.000 €

    88008

  • 2nd Prize

    1.250.000 €

    58303

  • 3nd Prize

    500.000 €

    31938

  • 4nd Prize

    200.000 €

    93361

    41147

  • 5nd Prize

    60.000 €

    54274

    45353

    88979

    92023

    01568

    86007

    57421

    37038

This information provided by SELAE is provisional and may be subject to errors. Once the draw is concluded, SELAE will proceed to publish the result on its official website. For the allocation of prizes, only the content of SELAE's Central Computer System will be valid. SELAE is not responsible for any other publication, regardless of its origin or nature.

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