Christmas came early for a 19-year-old mom who won the $1 million prize in Old Navy’s “Overnight Millionaire” Sweepstakes.

Kaitlyn Jackson decided to head to Old Navy on Thursday afternoon in hopes of playing the retailer’s third annual sweepstakes, in which 50 shoppers at every Old Navy store across North America received a game card giving them a chance to win $1 million. Jackson, a South Carolina mom of a 2-year-old daughter, went to the store with her mother, according to WYFF, and was one of the last people in line to receive a game card.

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On Friday night, the winner of the sweepstakes was randomly selected, and WYFF says Jackson couldn’t believe it when she learned that she was the lucky recipient of the $1 million prize. “I didn’t believe it at all,” Jackson said. “I thought it was a joke or whatever. I didn’t think it was actually going to go through like it did.”

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The Old Navy official who notified Jackson of the good news asked the young mom if the money would change her life, but perhaps didn’t know just how important the prize would be. “Kaitlyn has devoted herself to raising her young daughter, who will turn 3 the day after Christmas,” Old Navy told WYFF in a statement. “She will now be able to help with her mother’s car payments, set up a savings account for her toddler daughter, and help rebuild part of her local church thanks to Old Navy.”

Jackson received her official check on Wednesday, in a presentation at her local Old Navy store. She told WYFF she will use some of the prize money for a family trip. “Well, we’re about to take a vacation trip to Gatlinburg, so that’ll be good,” she told the news station.

Accompanied at the check presentation by her boyfriend, Jackson said she has her eyes on a more long-term goal, too: “We’re planning on having a wedding….soon.”

(Photo: Facebook/Kaitlyn Jackson)

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