Lottery player worried about retirement — then won big. ‘Happiness flooded in'
Now, 'I'm feeling much better about things,' she told Maryland Lottery officials, according to a July 23 news release.
The woman, from Queen Anne's County, bought her winning Pick 5 ticket for the July 18 midday drawing at a gas station in Gaithersburg, lottery officials said.
She usually goes for scratch-off tickets, and she did grab a couple of those.
But, 'every once in a while, I try something different,' she told lottery officials, so she threw the Pick 5 in as well.
When she learned she'd won, 'I refused to believe it,' she said, per the release. 'I knew what I was seeing. I knew what my Lottery app was telling me. I just wouldn't let myself accept that it had happened.'
But, eventually, 'the happiness flooded in,' she told lottery officials.
Gaithersburg is about a 45-mile drive southwest from Baltimore.
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