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"We said we were going to stay up that night and watch for the numbers, but we ended up falling asleep," said Thomas. The next morning the Slaughters discovered they had won. Thomas says he didn't even believe his wife when she said they'd won because she'd always joked around before about winning the lottery.
"She started screaming that we'd won, but i thought she was kidding," he said. "Finally, after looking at her for a while, at the expression on her face and the tears in her eyes, I realized there was something different from the way she'd said it before.”
Sure enough, the Slaughters held the only winning ticket for a $12.9 million Lotto jackpot. Just where did those lucky numbers come from? They were the same numbers Wanda Slaughter had used the Wednesday before and she simply forgot to change them.
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