A Harlem woman, the seventh of seven children, scored a million dollars on her Instant Jackpot scratch-off card.
The lucky winning number, of course, was 7.
Angela Williams, 52, said yesterday she thought of her mother, who always played the numbers, as soon as she won.
“I used to tell her all the time, I said, ‘One day, you gonna hit the lotto,’ ” Williams said.
But when Williams’ mother passed in 1994, “I guess she left it down to me. I feel she’s looking over me. She would probably say, ‘You deserve it.’
“It was a fluke. I don’t know why I chose to play that day, but I’m sure glad I did,” said the office administrator, who bought the $5 scratch-off ticket at the Pank Shah newsstand on Broadway and 111th Street during her lunch break on Feb. 22.
She will receive 20 annual payments of $31,152 after taxes.
Williams, who has no children of her own, says she’s going to splurge on her nieces and nephews.
“They say I’m their favorite aunt. I’m their super favorite now,” she said.