Grocery trip turns into $1M lotto win: ‘It doesn’t feel real at all’
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Last month, Stuart Melvin’s errand run in New Brunswick ended with more than just groceries – he just didn’t know it yet. He's now a millionaire.
Last month, Stuart Melvin’s errand run ended with more than just groceries – he just didn’t know it yet.
An ordinary grocery trip ended with the Saint John, N.B., man deciding to buy some lottery tickets at Shawn’s Variety in a roll of the dice.
When he returned a week later, the cashier scanned what would end up being life-altering tickets.
“I thought I had won $2 … and never thought more about it,” Melvin said in an Atlantic Lottery news release Friday.
“I was just looking at the regular numbers, Atlantic 49 and 6/49. I didn’t think to check the other number on the ticket.”
That other number resulted in a $1 million win of the Gold Ball from the July 27 Lotto 6/49 draw.
“It doesn’t feel real at all,” Melvin said.
He first shared the news of his big win with his sister, who was in such disbelief she thought he was joking.
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