North Carolina grandmother’s Christmas lottery tradition wins grandchild $150k

APEX, N.C. (WNCN) — Nothing makes spirits bright quite like a six-figure check at the holidays.

In the company of more than 20 family members, Gracie Burgess of Apex scratched away on a $5 Peppermint Payout ticket she got from her grandmother to find she was a top prize winner of $150,000.

“It was a little chaotic,” she said of the big moment…

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