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A North Carolina woman received an extra special surprise during the week of her 40th birthday: a $626,543 lottery jackpot

Chelsea Carter, a house cleaner from Ocean Isle Beach, N.C. won the massive prize from the state's Monopoly digital instants game last week and collected her winnings on her birthday

“I was in shock,” Carter told lottery officials. “I started shaking my husband telling him to wake up. I go ‘I just won $626,000,’ and he laughed and closed his eyes.”

A North Carolina woman rang in her 40th birthday last week with an extra special surprise: a $626,543 lottery jackpot win.

Chelsea Carter, a house cleaner from Ocean Isle Beach, won the massive prize from the state's Monopoly digital instants game on Wednesday, Sept. 10, and collected her prize two days lat

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