Cousins win big playing Lotto 6/49

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ONTARIO LOTTERY & GAMING CORPORATION

************************* Mississauga cousins win $3,624,011 playing Lotto 6/49

TORONTO, October 19 - Congratulations to Aurora Adriatico & Carmelita Santos of Mississauga who claimed a Lotto 6/49 jackpot of $3,624,011 from the October 10, 2009, draw.

"I was jumping and crying when I thought we had won $3,000, and then I asked myself why are there two commas?" Adriatico excitedly said of her jackpot win.

"Once I realized what we had won I called my cousin right away," Adriatico went on to say. "I told Aurora I'll believe it when I see it."

Santos said of her reaction to the win.

"We have been playing the same numbers for so long, winning feels surreal," Santos told Toronto Prize Centre staff.

The 68- and 65-year-old cousins plan to take care of family and to travel across Canada.

The winning ticket was purchased at Rockwood Lotto Centre located on Dixie Road in Mississauga.

OLG is a provincial agency responsible for province-wide lottery games and gaming facilities.

Since 1975, OLG lotteries, casinos, slots, and resort casinos have generated more than $28 billion for the benefit of the Province of Ontario.

Gaming proceeds support Ontario's hospitals, amateur sport, recreational and cultural activities, communities, provincial priority programs such as health care and education, and local and provincial charities and non-profit organizations through the Ontario Trillium Foundation.

Know your limit, play within it!

The Ontario Problem Gambling Helpline is 1-888-230-3505.

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