GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) –Maria Baquiran Moreno, of Greensboro, won a $1 million lottery prize, according to the NC Education Lottery.
“I was sobbing,” she said. “It was overwhelming.”
Moreno found out she won the grand prize in Wednesday’s $10 Million Spectacular Second Chance drawing when she got a phone call from the lottery.
There were more than one million entries in the drawing.
“When I started crying, my kids thought something was wrong,” Moreno said.
She said she likes to keep her scratch-offs and enter them into second-chance drawings.
When Moreno arrived to collect her winnings Monday, she had a decision to make.
She could choose to receive her prize as an annuity of $50,000 over 20 years or a lump sum of $600,000.
She chose the lump sum of $600,000.
After required state and federal tax withholdings, she took home $429,000.
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Moreno said she plans to use her winnings to pay off her mortgage and possibly take a family trip to Japan.
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