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Bad luck is the reason a North Carolina man won a $2 million Powerball lottery prize

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Misfortune on the scariest night of the year wasn't so bad after all

By Kate Northrop

A bout of bad luck was the direct reason why a North Carolina man won a $2 million Powerball lottery prize on Halloween.

Were it not for an inconvenience out of his control, a North Carolina lottery player would not have won $2 million in the Halloween Powerball drawing.

Bram Dunehew of Concord was filling up his gas tank on Friday, Oct. 30 but encountered an error. The receipt didn't print out, so he went inside the attached Sam's Mart convenience store on N.C. 49 in Harrisburg.

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