OAK GROVE, Ky. – A western Kentucky woman is living a dream come true thanks to winning the top prize on a Kentucky Lottery scratch-off ticket.

Lottery officials say the woman, who chose to stay anonymous, kept the ticket under her pillow the night before she claimed it.

Officials say the woman won the $50,000 top prize.

She said her son had encouraged her to play the ticket recently when they stopped at Pal’s in Oak Grove.

“I had never seen the ticket but told her to play it because it stuck out at me,” her son said. “She scratched it off in the store and the first number, 52, appeared and she saw the prize, and we both got a little nervous. I told her to scratch off the barcode and scan it.”

When they scanned the ticket, they had won $50,000.

“I could have fainted. I will tell you,

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