{"id":995475,"date":"2022-02-18T01:24:39","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T01:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/18\/n-c-womans-lost-532234-lottery-ticket-found-just-in-time\/"},"modified":"2022-02-18T01:24:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T01:24:39","slug":"n-c-womans-lost-532234-lottery-ticket-found-just-in-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/18\/n-c-womans-lost-532234-lottery-ticket-found-just-in-time\/","title":{"rendered":"N.C. woman’s lost $532,234 lottery ticket found just in time"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ana Maya, of Graham, N.C., said she found out her Cash 5 lottery ticket was a winner while she was in the process of moving and soon discovered she had forgotten where she put it. Maya was able to find the ticket in time to collect a $532,234 jackpot. File Photo by Robert Lessmann\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

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Feb. 17 (UPI) —<\/span> A North Carolina woman who won a $532,234 lottery jackpot said she lost the ticket while moving, and her months-long search ended just before the ticket was set to expire.<\/p>\n

Ana Maya, 32, of Graham, told North Carolina Education Lottery officials she bought a Quick Pick ticket for the Sept. 6 Cash 5 drawing from Huff’s Interstate in Burlington and learned she had won the jackpot while in the process of moving to a new home.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n

Maya said she started to panic when she was unpacking at her new residence and couldn’t find the winning ticket.<\/p>\n

“These last couple of months have been very stressful trying to find it,” Maya said. “I totally forgot where I put it.”<\/p>\n

Maya said she finally found the ticket pressed between the pages of an old school notebook.<\/p>\n

“I was very, very relieved when I finally found it,” Maya said. “That was the last place I would have looked.”<\/p>\n

The winner found the ticket in time to collect her $532,234 jackpot before it would have expired March 6.<\/p>\n

Maya said her plans for the winnings include taking a vacation, paying bills, making investments and putting money aside for her two young children.\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ana Maya, of Graham, N.C., said she found out her Cash 5 lottery ticket was a winner while she was in the process of moving and soon discovered she had forgotten where she put it. Maya was able to find the ticket in time to collect a $532,234 jackpot. File Photo by Robert Lessmann\/Shutterstock Feb. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":995476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}