Sara Wilkerson,41, of Laurinburg is currently in nursing school and said she will use her $150,000 second-chance win to help pay for school.
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"You never really think something like this could happen to you," she said. "But it happened."
Wilkerson won the grand prize in the second and final Holiday Spectacular second-chance drawing on Feb. 8.
"I saw the email and I thought it was a joke," she said. "I had never really won anything before but I kept trying."
Wilkerson said she called her mom right away to tell her the good news and she didn't believe her.
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"I was like, 'Mom this is legit,'' Wilkerson said.
Wilkerson collected her prize Friday and took home $106,875, after required state and federal tax withholdings.
After putting some of the finds towards nursing school she plans to put the rest in savings.