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| Maria Carreiro said she had plenty of plans for the money but would first take her whole family to dinner |
A Toronto woman
celebrating what she thought was a 40,000 Canadian dollar ($39,428;
£26,000) lottery prize had in fact won C$40m, officials have said.
Maria Carreiro, 51, said she "ran down the street like a
crazy woman" after her daughter looked online and discovered the award's
true size.
Among her plans for the winnings were a Hawaii honeymoon after 30 years of marriage and a larger house.
Carreiro had worked at a factory before quitting to raise her children.
She said her husband had already left his job.
"I couldn't believe it," Ms Carreiro told reporters. "I was shaking and just couldn't believe that it was real."
Ms Carreiro bought the LottoMax ticket for a Friday drawing
and checked her ticket at the store on Saturday morning. She realised
her multi-million dollar mistake when she returned home to tell her
family.
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