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newsobserver.com on 2024-04-26 19:14

Lottery player thought top prize win was ‘cruel’ joke — but it wasn’t. ‘So unreal’

A Chesapeake woman won a $100,000 top prize on a Virginia lottery ticket on April 1 but thought it was an April Fools’ Day joke. It was real

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