News like this would turn anyone’s head and set any locality on fire. Let alone in a small town in the mountains further north of the province, where life goes slower than elsewhere, where everyone knows each other and knows each other’s habits by heart. In the bar tobacconist newsstand of the Plona brothers a Corteno Golgi have been won, with a scratch card of the series «The billionaire maxi», 2 million euros (according to statistics, one ticket out of 720,000 is the winner). It means that a person who has entered the establishment in via Nazionale 556 in the last few days has bought a ticket worth twenty euros, has played and will soon be able to collect a dizzying sum.
We are on the border between the territory of San Pietro di Corteno and Aprica, along the state road 39, a strip of purely passing land. Here you experience a bit of tourism, between July and August and in winter for skiing, and people passing through, who go to work or travel to Valtellina and the valley floor. The classic place for a coffee and go, a pack of cigarettes or a newspaper in the morning.
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Today the tobacco bar is managed by two sisters; the owner is Marinella, who was behind the counter all day yesterday too. This caught her off guard, because the news of the win was spread across all the media, but she, as usually happens, has not received any official communication. The matrix of the scratch card, that yes, to testify that the precious coupon was sold right here, is in his hands. As soon as the news spread, the hunt for the winner began, with extended looks in the neighbors’ houses, to note any suspicious movement. “They say he’s a boy”, is whispered in the village, a voice immediately denied by another: “No, he’s a worker who went to work”. Impossible, at the moment, to understand who the new millionaire of Corteno is. But the research is ruthless and has infected the entire upper Valcamonica. Instead, Mrs. Marinella is worried: «I have to go away for two days, planned for some time, they’ll think it’s me. But really not.” A lucky tobacconist, hers: a few years ago €100,000 had already been won.
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2023-09-06 04:00:50
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