If you let it get worse and worse until you arrived at the current state, it isn't likely that it will turn again. But it is possible. (By the way, I am not preaching, I've been in that situation myself.)

If it happened suddenly, over say a few days, then there is an excellent chance you can get it to turn that one more time. I managed to do this at my friend's shop, on his customer's car, by turning as I jiggled the steering wheel against the lock.

Apart from what Vstech suggested, you could also try going and getting a cheap pattern key made at a hardware store, then gently file down the all ridges of the key. This actually worked for me, once.

If you have no other way out, dremeling off the lock pin isn't as bad as it sounds. I lived with one car 'fixed' that way for several years. You get used to it pretty quickly.

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