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$1m Lotto win no joke BY SUE NEWMAN
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When it’s April 1 and someone tells you they’ve won Lotto and they’re sharing their winnings with you, it has to be an April Fool’s joke, right? Wrong. An Ashburton woman, who wants to remain anonymous, won Lotto in the March 31 draw but
didn’t check her ticket until April Fool’s Day. She logged in to her her MyLotto account and discovered she was the latest Lotto millionaire. However, she was the millionaire that luck almost passed by. That winning ticket was bought after a last minute reminder from her mother.
“Mum called me about 6pm for a chat and as we were finishing up she reminded me to buy a Lotto ticket,” she said. The woman went online and bought her regular Triple Dip with just minutes to spare. When the numbers checked off one after the other, the woman could not believe her eyes. Her im-
With remarkable self control, the winner kept the secret to herself while she came up with a way to let family members know of their windfall.
mediate reaction was that it was a win she’d split with her family. However, convincing them that the Lotto gods had smiled on family members was hard work, given the day was April 1, she said. “I was so happy, I couldn’t believe it. As soon as I saw all those zeros I immediately thought about how I could help my family.”
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