Virginia man wins $250,000 after allegedly dreaming of winning lottery numbers: "It was hard to believe"
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Winning the lottery is a dream for many, but one man's dream became his reality.
Retiree Alonzo Coleman, who won $250,000 in Virginia's Bank a Million lottery, said the winning numbers came to him in a dream. After the dream, he went to a local store and purchased a lottery ticket with the numbers: 13-14-15-16-17-18 and Bonus Ball 19. And in the June 11 drawing, his "unusual sequence" of numbers was a winning set of numbers, lottery officials said in a press release.
"It was hard to believe!" Coleman told lottery officials. "It still hasn't hit me yet!"
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