That’s such a relief to be able to say that I did those things," she said. She said she plans to use her winnings to pay off her mortgage and her student loan and credit card debt. It’s not something that happens − ever− to us. "We couldn’t believe that something like that would happen to us. “Just the shock and disbelief, I guess," she said while picking up her prize with Ellis. Her initial winnings were $1 million, according to the Iowa Lottery, but they were doubled because she added the PowerPlay option to her ticket. Racing to the Casey's just before closing time Monday night, Balmer said she could hardly contain her tears when the clerk confirmed she'd won a $2 million prize. Then we called my stepmom and we went and checked it at another Casey’s gas station and verified that it was a winner.” “And then I checked on the app and didn’t quite believe what I was seeing. “I had a ticket with multiple plays on it and I saw the numbers, and I double-checked on the website a couple times,” the 36-year-old nurse told the Iowa Lottery. When they checked the numbers an hour later at home, they could hardly believe it. Megan Balmer purchased her easy-pick lottery ticket Monday night at a local Casey's near her home in Garwin, about 85 miles northeast of Des Moines, just before the sale cut-off time with her boyfriend, Mike Ellis. An Iowa woman became the only Powerball winner to take home a $2 million prize when her easy-pick ticket came just one number away from the near-record $725 million jackpot.
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