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March 14 (UPI) -- A former North Carolina woman was visiting a friend in her home state when she scored a $2 million lottery prize.

Brittaney Dominguez of Winfield, Ala., told North Carolina Education Lottery officials she was visiting a friend in her home state of North Carolina when she bought a $20 Mega 7's scratch-off ticket from VGO 28 on North Reilly Road in Fayetteville.

Dominguez took the ticket back to her friend's house and scratched off the $2 million top prize.

"I just couldn't believe it," Dominguez recalled. "It didn't really register."