万花筒 2009-01-07&01-08丈夫亡故，飞来千万横财（在线收听）

It's a lottery story unlike so many others, where chance was followed quickly by fate and grief gave way to an amazing discovery. That's Charlotte Peters, and that's a golden lottery ticket she almost threw away. Her husband had bought it a couple of months ago, but died of a heart attack that same day, never knowing the ticket was a big winner.

My husband had purchased it on November 1st and he had a heart attack on November 1st, and this was drawn on December 2nd.

His wife didn't know it was a winner either and put the ticket aside during weeks of mourning until just recently.

I was on the verge of throwing it out, and I was in the grocery store, and I asked to have it checked, and they told me I was a winner. I had no idea how much it was.

She now knows that ticket is worth $10 million. Donald Peters was a retired factory worker and had been playing the lottery regularly for 20 years.

Sandy Cousell, the Associated Press.