Have you ever won a lottery in your life? If yes, then maybe you will relate to this story, if no, maybe you will relate to the rest of us mere mortals.
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We reckon, most of us are quite unlucky when it comes to taking a chance and actually having something good come out of it. We never get the last seat on the bus, we never find old currency notes in our pockets and neither do we land a jackpot.?
46-year-old Oksana Zaharov was recently handed a lottery ticket - one she did not choose, and she ended up winning a lottery of $5 million!
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The woman wasn't supposed to win this, okay? This American wonder lady?was handed out a different ticket at the shopping store in Manhattan. She picked up $1 lottery ticket but the clerk at the supermarket gave her a $10 'Set For Life' lottery ticket. She decided to pay for it anyway.?
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"When the clerk handed me the wrong ticket I felt bad so I decided to just go ahead and buy it," Ms Zaharov told New York Lottery.
"I actually used the ticket as a bookmark for a couple weeks before I decided to scratch it," she said.?
Well, that's one expensive bookmark, we must say!
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Upon scratching, she found out that she had won a lottery and obviously, she?could not believe it. You aren't supposed to win a lottery just like that! She then took the ticket to the office and it was only then she accepted that she had won it.
"I never win anything. I was sure the ticket was fake. It wasn't until I brought it into the office that I knew it was for real," she said,
She now wants to spend the money on a trip to the Bahamas and maybe the rest of it on educating her kids. She will get the entire amount in about 19 annual installments.?
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Oh, so while we are stuck in a 9-5?repertoire, people around the world are winning lotteries and making plans to travel to the Bahamas - Nice! Hurts like a beach, but nice!?