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		</div><p>A woman in the US who accidentally threw out a one million dollar (£706,000) lottery ticket eventually collected her winnings thanks to the kindness and honesty of the owners of the shop where she bought it.</p>
<p>Lea Rose Fiega bought the 30 dollar (£21) Diamond Millions scratchcard in March at the Lucky Stop convenience store in Southwick, Massachusetts, near where she works.</p>
<p>“I was in a hurry, on lunch break, and just scratched it real quick, and looked at it, and it didn’t look like a winner, so I handed it over to them to throw away,” she said.</p>
<p>The ticket lay behind the counter for 10 days.</p>
<p>“One evening, I was going through the tickets from the trash and found out that she didn’t scratch the number,” Abhi Shah, the son of the store’s owners told WWLP-TV.</p>
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<p>“I scratched the number and it was one million dollars underneath the ticket.”</p>
<p>Ms Fiega is a regular customer, so the family knew immediately who had discarded it.</p>
<p>Mr Shah went to see Ms Fiega at work.</p>
<p>“He came to my office and said ‘my Mom and Dad would like to see you’,” she said.</p>
<p>“I said ‘I’m working’, and he said ‘no you have to come over’. So I went over there and that’s when they told me. I was in total disbelief. I cried, I hugged them.”</p>
<p>Ms Fiega said overcoming a near fatal bout with Covid-19 in January was like “winning the lottery”, so she feels doubly fortunate.</p>
<p>“I mean, who does that? They’re great people. I am beyond blessed,” she said.</p>
<p>The store gets a 10,000 dollar (£7,000) bonus from the state lottery commission for selling the winning ticket.</p>
<p>Ms Fiega said she gave the family an additional reward.</p>
<p>She is saving the rest for retirement.</p>
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