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UXBRIDGE — It's not regular that someone comes to your door to present you with a $15,000 check.

But that's what happened to Lillian Trottier along Tuesday afternoon, as she was the succeeder of one of Publishers Clearing House's cash in prize sweepstakes.

In plus to selling magazines and unusual products, part of the Long Island, New York, engineer marketing company's business is conducting sweepstakes and free-to-play games online. Cash prizes range from $1,000 to $10 million, and it's estimated that someone wins a prize from the company all 5 minutes.

Members of the company's Prize Police Team knock on the foremost doors of homes throughout the country, a batch of celebratory balloons in hand, presenting trusting people with puffy prizes.

Prize Patrol Team member Howie Guja takes a selife with Lillian Trottier and her husband, Mark.

And along Tuesday afternoon, Trottier was left nearly speechless Eastern Samoa Prize Patrol Team member Howie Guja given her with the check.

"Shocked" was the commencement word Trottier used to describe how she was feeling.

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"I put on't know what to say," she added while on the scepter of tears. "Give thanks you."

Trottier said she volition use disunite of the money to pay for a unexampled heating system for her 42-year-old home. Both will as wel be used to steal Yule presents for her family, whom she said will get a turf out of learning she North Korean won.

It's a welcome rest period for the 68-year old Koopman Lumber actor, as she and 69-year old economize, Mark, plan to soon retire.

"It's unbelievable," she aforementioned.

Trottier has been submitting her name in the troupe's online sweepstakes for quite an for a while. IT's something she does every sidereal day after work.

Sweepstakes winners are selected randomly, so her odds enhanced the more frequently she applied.

"I just treasured to keep out stressful," Trottier aforesaid. "I ne'er though I'd make headway."

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Eastern Samoa for Guja, the daytime started early. He traveled from his home on Lank Island to aim to Uxbridge by 1 p.m. On the agency to Trottier's house, helium picked up the fully grown check, which atomic number 2 ordered from a Staples stores in Connecticut.

In front heading to Trottier's home, he stopped up at a Hanaford supermarket to gather up flowers he ordered for the winner and to fill the balloons.

As is the case with all Publishers Clearing House visits, the winner had no idea the Appreciate Police was climax, so there was a casual Guja would knock on the door only when to find nobody home.

And initially, Trottier wasn't. Cypher was. But Guja only had to wait 2 minutes before Score Trottier arrived, and an add-on 40 minutes for Trottier to come home from her job at Koopman Pound.

Mark had to convince her on the phone to come home without revealing the big surprise. Atomic number 2 settled for telling her that there were some people in the driveway that she'd cost aflutter to see.

Guja aforementioned something like that occurs about 20% of the time. Only it happens, and it's just part of the job.

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His favorite part is acquiring to locomotion some the country and seeing the looks on hoi polloi's faces when they see they have won big.

"That's the moment you wait for," atomic number 2 said. "Some of these people enter every 24-hour interval and don't give it often thought. Unity day, they see me there with the blazer on and the balloons and the flowers... and immediately they eff what's going on."

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