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A dream of winning the National Lottery came
true for a Port Glasgow student who won £2,543,691
in the Lotto draw for 24 January. Kerri Cartwright
had the dream of hitting the jackpot a week
before the win. But it's her three year old
daughter Stephani she credits for the win, because
if she hadn't gone shopping to buy juice for
Stephani, she may not have even bought her lucky
midweek lottery ticket.
"I had promised to get Stephani some
blackcurrant juice and some orange juice so
I went into Tesco to buy them," Kerri explained.
"The juice was on a 'buy one get one free'
offer, so with the money I saved I decided to
buy a lottery ticket for the draw that night."
Of course, Kerri is delighted that she chose
to buy her ticket. But her boss wasn't at all
convinced that her previous dream may have any
prophetic meaning. "I had a dream that
I had won the lottery," Kerri said. "It
was so real I told my boss about it and he joked
it would be nice - and then told me to get back
to work! I can't believe that a week later my
dream has come true."
Kerri didn't discover her win watching the
midweek lottery draw live on television, but
the day after the fortuitous event had taken
place. "I was in bed later when I realised
I had not checked my ticket. It was downstairs
and I really didn't want to get it, so I put
the TV on in the bedroom and tapped the numbers
into my mobile and saved them as a text message.
It was only when I was in the canteen at college
the next day that I remembered to check them.
"I thought at first I had four numbers,
then five and I was really pleased," Kerri
continued. "I asked my friend Jo to check
for me. She had my mobile and the ticket and
she said 'you're playing a joke on me, aren't
you? You have all six'. I couldn't believe it
and rushed to my mum's shop to celebrate with
her and my aunt. We were all dancing around,
we were so happy!"
Kerri is now planning how to spend her fortune.
"The win means the world to me as I won't
ever have to worry about things again,"
she said. "I'm planning to take all the
family away on holiday to Disney World. We have
always wanted to go. I'm also going to buy two
cars. One will be a sensible family car but
the other will be a sports car just for me!"
2 February, 2007
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