Imagine waiting 31 years to take your honeymoon. Three decades of life, bills, kids, work, laundry — and every time you say, “We’ll do it next year,” next year turns into the next decade.

That was Cheryl and her husband’s story. Until one random grocery run flipped the script.

Cheryl Bach was just doing what any of us do — picking up groceries at Harris Teeter in Holly Springs. Maybe milk. Maybe bread. But then she made a $50 decision that, in hindsight, feels like something straight out of the universe’s stand-up routine: she bought a “$10 Million Spectacular” scratch-off ticket.

Now, here’s where life gets poetic. The game was literally about to be discontinued because all the big $10 million prizes had already been claimed. And yet Cheryl — the woman who’d been waiting over 30 years for a honeymoon — landed one of the last $1 million prizes left in the wild.

Cue the disbelief.

“I had to put my glasses on to make sure I was seeing it right,”

“He didn’t believe me. I had to take a picture to show him.”

Cheryl opted for the lump sum — walking away with about $430,000 after taxes. Not quite $10 million, but enough to rewrite a few chapters of their story.

When asked what she’ll do next, her answer was simple and kind of perfect:

“I’m going to take a vacation with my husband that will finally be our honeymoon.”

They haven’t picked the destination yet, and honestly, that’s the point. It’s not about the beach, or the resort, or how many stars the hotel has. It’s about finally pressing pause on 31 years of “we’ll do it later.”

Sometimes the universe takes its sweet time delivering. But when it finally does — it sure knows how to make an entrance.