Nicole’s Lottery Story

Nicole always believed she would be lucky one day.
She often played the numbers 13, 17, and 70.
Sometimes she added 30 or even 44.

One evening, she spent 9.99 dollars on a ticket.
The ticket number was 717,100,888.
At first, she thought she had won only 100 dollars.
Then she checked again and saw 1,100.
But the announcer said,
“Nicole, you are the grand prize winner of 101,110,111 dollars —
that’s one hundred million, one hundred thousand, one hundred.”

After taxes, Nicole received 44,414,441.44 dollars.
She bought a penthouse for 17,001,880 dollars.
She purchased jewelry for 70,017.70 dollars.
She gave her parents 13,000 dollars,
and donated 30,013,030 to charity.

Reporters asked for her new contact line.
She smiled and gave it: 0208 770 3300.
She read it slowly:
“Oh two oh eight, double seven zero, double three, double zero.”

Nicole laughed and said,
“Last year my savings account had only 17.00 dollars.
Now it shows more than 17,000,999,010.17!”