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A missed call on Saturday morning led a Whitsundays woman to discover she had won $1 million, enough to pay off her family’s mortgage.
The woman held Australia’s only division one winning entry in the Weekday Windfall draw on Friday 30th October. The following morning with her family, she spotted a text from The Lott and opened the app to check her ticket.
“I was very shocked,” the mystery millionaire told The Lott.
“I had my family with me and I was thinking, ‘Does that say what I think it does?’”
The family had already been thinking about moving, and the win gives them more room to decide where to go next.
“It will mean we won’t have a mortgage anymore,” she said.
“It will take the pressure off.”
The woman apparently regularly entered the Monday, Wednesday and Friday Weekday Windfall draws, proving persistence does pay off.
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