Check your pockets! Millions of dollars in lottery winnings go unclaimed every year

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A lottery ticket worth millions may be sitting on someone’s dresser, or in their jacket pocket — and they don’t even know it. 

The unclaimed $64-million ticket was purchased in Gloucester County, N.B., in April and it expires soon, according to the Atlantic Lottery. If no one cashes in, it would become the largest prize to go unclaimed in Atlantic Canada. 

“At the beginning, it was crazy. It was the talk almost every day,” said Marlene Legacy, who owns the Last Stop Convenience Store outside of Bathurst, N.B., which may have sold the winning lottery ticket.

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