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COMIN’ UP JO$IE

Josie Almonte can’t believe she just shook hands with Lady Luck.

“I’ve never won anything in my life,” said the 35-year-old Upper West Side resident, a real winner who snared real cash – $10,000 in The Post’s $6 million Monopoly Scratch N’ Win game.

And with a new game card coming free in The Post on Monday, you, too, could win . . . up to the weekly jackpot of $250,000.

“It feels great,” said Almonte, the office manager at a Manhattan law firm.

When she saw she had the winning numbers, “I said this must be a mistake – I must have scratched off the wrong numbers,” she said.

Almonte asked her boyfriend to call and confirm that she had indeed won a prize – and then “I was in shock,” she said.

She plans to use her winnings to pay bills and “some of it, I’m giving to charity, and some to family and friends.”

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