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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - A Florida man is now $100,000 richer after claiming a winning lottery ticket – but he didn't buy the ticket in Florida.

John Burg of Lantana bought a $20 100X The Cash ticket at a gas station in North Carolina, which net him $100,000, the NC Education Lottery said in a press release. Lantana is located about 12 miles south of West Palm Beach.

He purchased the ticket from a Speedway on University Parkway in Winston-Salem, about 30 miles west of Greensboro.