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A Virginia woman was cleaning when she found a box of scratch-off lottery tickets in a closet

Alfreda Hawkins said she "almost passed out" when she saw her prize

As for the future, she told lottery officials that she doesn't have any immediate plans for how to spend her windfall

A Virginia woman won a $100,000 lottery prize after finding a box of scratch-off tickets inside a closet.

Alfreda Hawkins was cleaning around her house in Richmond when she came upon the box of lottery tickets in one of her closets, according to a news release from Virginia Lottery officials.

So Hawkins took the tickets out and began scratching them — and one of them was a big winner.

The Richmond woman said she was stunned by her good fortune. “I almost passed out!” she told lottery officials

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