Holiday Shopper Finds 4 Million Reasons To Be Jolly After Lottery

NATICK, MA — A holiday shopping trip to the Natick Mall provided a Lowell woman with $4 million worth of holiday miracle.

Neag Peov, of Lowell, was eating lunch in the food court with her husband when she decided to take a chance on some Lottery tickets at the Happy Corner store. She scratched the tickets at the mall, and one of them - a 100x instant ticket worth $10 - was a $4 million winner.

The couple visited Lottery headquarters in Braintree Monday morning to claim the prize. Peov took the cash option, getting her a one-time payment of $2.6 million (less tax withholdings.) She said she plans to pay off her mortgage and invest in retirement.

Happy Corner will get a $40,000 bonus for selling the ticket.

There are still three $4 million prizes and 10 $1 million prizes in the 100x game, lottery officials said.

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