California teen wins the lottery twice in one week

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Winning the lottery once is incredible. Winning it twice is unthinkable. But winning it twice in one week?

According to a June news release from the California Lottery, 19-year-old Rosa Dominguez purchased two $5 tickets within the span of a week, and both of the tickets turned out to be winners.

Dominguez was driving back from Arizona when she decided to buy a Power 5's ticket at a gas station in San Luis Obispo County. She then scratched the ticket and discovered that she had won the top prize of $555,555.

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"I was so nervous I just wanted to cry," Dominguez told lottery officials.

A few days later, Dominguez bought a Lucky Fortune scratcher at a gas station in Greenfield that ended up being worth $100,000.

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The ecstatic Dominguez picked up her $655,555 in winnings from the California Lottery's East Bay District Office in Hayward, and told lottery officials that she plans to go shopping and buy herself a new car.