TOPEKA — When Lori Boyle stopped Wednesday to get gas and check on a lottery ticket, she had no idea she would walk out of the store a multimillionaire.
The 42-year-old mother of two daughters, ages 19 and 13, bought the Hot Lotto ticket July 4 in her hometown of Independence, but had kept the ticket in her purse without realizing the $12.9 million jackpot had been hit in Kansas.
Boyle said she and her boyfriend, Keith Hofstrom, had gone to a wedding in Tulsa, Okla., over the weekend and bought $20 worth of Powerball tickets, hoping to win on Saturday — 7-7-07 — considered by many to be among the luckiest of days because the date has three sevens.
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