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A couple from the city of Gaithersburg recently won the Maryland Lottery playing the Million Dollar Mega Multiplier Scratch-Off and became millionaires.

The woman from 51 years old, whose name was not identified by the Maryland Lottery, purchased the instant ticket with her husband at a 7-Eleven store located across the street from 7980 Georgia Avenue.

The couple had returned home when she began scratching off the lottery ticket. The wife thought she had won $10 thousand dollars, but then she realized that she had several numbers with prizes of $10 thousand, those who increased their winnings to a maximum prize of $1 million dollars.

“We were excited. We were happy and we cried, “said the lucky woman, according to the Montgomery Community Media information portal.

The Gaithersburg resident is an online sales associate and her husband is a construction worker . She told lottery officials that she wants to use the money to start her own business.

Her adult daughter works at a hair salon and the couple could use some of their winnings to help their daughter to open his own hair salon.

The 7-Eleven in Silver Spring earned a $1 bonus,000 lottery dollars for selling the winning ticket.

The Million Dollar Mega Multiplier game went on sale on July 18 and this is the first $1 million jackpot winning instant ticket ever sold.

Another six Scratch-Offs with prizes of $1 million each have yet to be claimed, plus another seven prizes of $18 thousand more of 140 prizes of $10 thousand.

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By Scribe