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Days Before Winning Ticket Expires, Indiana Couple Cash in for $2.5 Million

From our news sources in Indiana (WXIN-TV…thank you folks): A Greenwood, Indiana couple has come under the wire and finally turned in their old lottery ticket for $2.5 million dollars.

Time was running out.

For more than a week, the Hoosier Lottery has been looking for the winners of a lotto jackpot back in August. The deadline to collect was about to expire.

The winner was 39 year-old Eric White, who bought a Hoosier Lotto ticket in Indianapolis back in August 2009.

He said he never thought about the ticket again until his his wife Lori saw something this week on the news that caught her attention.

“I knew my husband liked to play the lottery, and leave them laying on the dresser or in the office so I asked him if he had any tickets he wanted to check and he said yeah,” said Lori White to Lottery officials.

Still, Eric seemed to be in no rush to check the ticket, so then, Lori sent her husband a text message.

“Two days later, I asked him again did you check those tickets? No, I haven’t yet, he said.”

“I had to call three different people to check the website because I didn’t believe it,” said Eric.

The rest of the story is history: the couple is now $2.5 million richer after only being days away from missing out on the jackpot.

“We couldn’t believe it. We’ve been holding on to it since August!”

Eric and Lori say the first thing they’re going to do with the money is put enough away for their children’s college education.

Awesome. Love stories like this.

The moral of the story: check your old lottery tickets lying around the house. They could make you a millionaire.