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Non-winning Lottery Ticket Makes Midlands Woman a Millionaire

6/22/2021 1:22:41 PM

COLUMBIA, SC (June 22, 2021) – An Irmo woman was driving and had to pull over when the Lottery called to tell her she won $1 MILLION.

The winner’s husband was with her in the car when she found out a non-winning lottery ticket she’d entered into the Double Your Million! Second-Chance Drawing was picked from the more than 800,000 entries received to win the $1 million grand prize.

“I can’t drive anymore,” she told her husband as she tried to process the news, so he took the wheel.

His first words, “This must be a scam.”

It was real.

A few days later the couple was back in the car headed to the Lottery’s Claims Center in Downtown Columbia to collect their $1 million prize.

“I never thought this would happen,” the millionaire said. “It’s unbelievable.”

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