Wife flabbergasted by lottery jackpot asks husband to double check NC ticket
It’s a North Carolina lottery win one 32-year-old woman didn’t expect — or believe.
Anabel Monter Martinez told her husband “to go back to the store and check” the lottery ticket again after winning $1 million, according to the NC Education Lottery.
Martinez’s husband bought a $10 scratch-off ticket at the La Guadalupana De Siler City in Siler City and gifted it to her, the lottery service said.
“I told him, ‘If I scratch it and I win, then it’s mine,’” Martinez said in a news release.
Martinez collected her lottery prize on Dec. 17 and had the option of choosing between $50,000 over the course of 20 years or a single payout of $600,000, according to the lottery service.
She chose $600,000 and collected $424,503 after taxes, lottery officials said.
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This story was originally published December 20, 2021 at 6:35 PM with the headline "Wife flabbergasted by lottery jackpot asks husband to double check NC ticket."
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