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Woman buys 30 winning lottery tickets in one day

By Michelle Ewing, Cox Media Group National Content Desk
March 12, 2019

Talk about hitting the jackpot.

According to WTVR, Deborah Brown of Richmond, Virginia, is $150,000 richer after buying 30 winning tickets in the state's Pick 4 drawing on Feb. 11.

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Brown said she purchased 20 tickets at a Chesterfield County Shell gas station that day, then returned later to buy 10 more, the TV station reported. She chose the same numbers for each ticket – 1-0-3-1.

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Those numbers were drawn later that evening, winning Brown $5,000 per ticket, WTVR reported.

Brown is still deciding how to spend her prize, "but she's considering some home renovation," a lottery spokeswoman said.

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