(Columbia) -- The person who won the $15 million dollar Powerball lottery earlier this month after buying a ticket in Florence has come forward.
79-year-old Navy Veteran Dick Sandlin of Wilmington, North Carolina claimed his check, Tuesday.
The ticket was sold at Amoco Food Shop #3 in Florence.
Sandlin and his wife, Colleen, have decided to take the lump sum, which averages out to $7.1 million dollars before taxes.
"I don't feel any different right now than I did before. I'm still dreaming. I guess I'll wake up after a while and jump up and down and hollar and all that stuff," says Dick.
At this point, Sandlin says all he plans on doing with the money is buying "an RC Cola and a Moon Pie."
As for his job with the North Carolina State Parks, "I feel kind of guilty holding a job that someone else might really need, so I think I might just blow out and let someone else have the job," said Sandlin.
This is the fourth time a winning Powerball ticket has been sold in South Carolina, and all four winners have been from North Carolina. Goosey's Gabbings... RC Cola and a Moon Pie, eh? I smell a country song on the horizon..
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