LANSING, MI -- Sharonda Blunt wasn’t planning on buying a Powerball ticket for the drawing held on Sept. 1. In fact, she’d never even bought a Powerball ticket in her life.

But a chance conversation led the 44-year-old Detroit woman to pick up a ticket, and it paid off in a big way as she won a $1 million prize in the drawing.

“I was talking to a guy in line at the store and he was telling me about the Powerball game and he bought a ticket, so I told the cashier to give me one too,” Blunt said. “A few days later, I was with my family and my aunt mentioned that a $1 million Powerball prize was won at the CVS in Grosse Pointe. It got me thinking, so I took out my ticket and had her read off the winning numbers.

“When she read five of my numbers, I grabbed her phone to see for myself and t

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