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LEMOORE, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A household visiting Lemoore for Christmas says their travel brought much vacation cheer than they could person imagined, successful the signifier of a winning lottery ticket.
Kyle Ramos says helium is from Lemoore, and his woman and kids decided to permission their location successful Pismo to sojourn his puerility home. While they were successful the valley, the Ramos household decided to sojourn Clovis's Candy Cane Lane.
"We were going to Save Mart [first] to get immoderate snacks and worldly for this small get-together," Ramos said. "We were successful line, and consecutive up from the cashier was a lotto machine."
Ramos says he's an avid lottery player, truthful erstwhile helium saw the machine, helium decided to effort his luck. After, the household near Save Mart and continued to Candy Cane Lane arsenic primitively planned.
"I retrieve 1 of the houses had a small booklet retired beforehand of their location wherever you tin radical tin constitute what you privation for Christmas," Ramos said. "I retrieve jokingly, I put, 'To triumph the lotto.'"
Ramos says helium besides joked with his lad and wished that the Green Bay Packers would triumph the Super Bowl, "Hey, I got 1 of my wishes right?"
Ramos says helium and his woman enactment their kids to furniture astir 11:30 that nighttime and his woman began scrolling connected societal media erstwhile she recovered a station connected Facebook that revealed idiosyncratic had won $1 million.
"I was thinking, 'Let maine scan my ticket. Maybe I won, similar 20 bucks oregon something,'" Ramos said. "At first, I thought it was similar a 1000 something, and past I had to blink and look again, and I noticed different comma."
After confirming aggregate times that the fig was nary glitch, Ramos says helium and his household instantly celebrated the win.
"I conscionable retrieve we each started jumping for joy, screaming and going crazy," Ramos said. "I couldn't spell to slumber that night."
Ramos says his deficiency of slumber did not conscionable travel from the excitement helium felt but besides the world of what winning the lottery comes with.
"Winning a batch of wealth tin travel with immoderate downfalls," Ramos said. "I was dreaming astir each the bully things that could hap but besides the bad."
According to Ramos, the household decided to prosecute a fiscal advisor earlier spending their winnings connected thing else.
"We wanted to marque definite we were doing the close thing," Ramos said. "We fig the smartest happening close present is to person it enactment for itself and marque other wealth portion we fig retired our plans with it."
Ramos says helium and his household are grateful for the win, and arsenic a Lemoore native, helium is gladsome to person won astatine home. He besides says helium is not ruling retired going backmost location adjacent Christmas to bargain different lottery summons to spot if lightning tin onslaught twice.
