A North Carolina woman learned of her husband’s lottery win over breakfast — then she had a burst of emotion.
“My wife was screaming and we were both just surprised and a little bit in shock,” winner Edward Gosselin Jr. said in an Aug. 5 news release. “She kept saying, ‘We did it, we did it.’”
The Gosselins are planning a trip to the Midwest after the husband tried his luck on an online game. He spent $3 on a Powerball ticket for the July 18 drawing and scored a six-figure prize, according to the N.C. Education Lottery.
Gosselin was checking his email one morning when he discovered his online ticket matched enough numbers to be worth $150,000. He then let his wife know they were getting richer, officials said.
“I was just eating my breakfast when he told me,” Joan Gosselin told the N.C. Education Lottery. “Then the screaming started.”
Though her husband missed out on the larger Powerball jackpot prize, the couple kept $106,516 after taxes. Officials said the two live in West End, near the golfing destination of Pinehurst and roughly 70 miles southwest of Raleigh.
It’s not the first time someone has cried out while celebrating a lottery win.
In May, North Carolina officials said a woman looked at her husband’s lucky scratch-off ticket and “started hollering.”
And in South Carolina, a winner was “running through the house screaming” over her big prize, McClatchy News reported in April.
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This story was originally published August 05, 2022 12:34 PM.