
There are lottery wins and then there are lottery wins. You’d like to think your numbers coming up in a state lottery would mean the rest of your life would be easy, but so many winners find that prizes of a couple of million dollars evaporate much more quickly than they anticipated.
Edwin Castro probably doesn’t have to worry about that. In 2023, his numbers came up in the California Lottery, which at the time had seen more than 40 consecutive drawings before Castro won. His prize? A jaw-dropping $2.04 billion jackpot.