At first, Jen Turcotte refused to take the call. When the Sudbury woman did, boy, was she glad.

“I must have hung up on them five times, I was like ‘I don’t know you, I’m not picking up’,” Turcotte recalled in a release. “I have a family member who works at (Health Science North) who I called, and she said that today was the draw day and you’ve gotta call them back. And I’m so glad I did.”

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The draw was the HSN 50/50 take-home grand prize. She won $468,158.

Derryck, Turcotte’s brother, who played this month’s HSN 50/50 along with their mother, Dale, thought Jen was playing a prank when she called him.

“I was at work when Jen called, saying we won the HSN 50/50, and I was sure it was a prank until her voice cracked when she was talking about how much the prize was. Th

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