Grandma Won $530K Lottery Prize 2 Days Before Her Birthday, but Waited for Another Important Day to Start Telling People

“They were all excited,” Janet Murray told North Carolina lottery officials

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  • A grandma in North Carolina won a prize worth over $530,000 last year
  • “I won it two days before my birthday,” Janet Murray said
  • Now she plans to “give some to my children and open an education fund for my great-grandchildren”

A North Carolina grandma got quite the surprise just days before her birthday: striking lottery gold!

Janet Murray of Fayetteville won a $534,619 prize playing a $1 Cash 5 ticket that she bought in time for the Dec. 9 drawing, the North Carolina Education Lottery said in a news release on Monday, Jan. 5

“I won it two days before my birthday,” said Murray…

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