Imagine waking up and checking the Sunday paper to find that you’ve won the lottery, but then learning that the newspaper printed the wrong numbers.
That’s just what happened to a Pueblo couple this weekend. Jim and Dorothy Sprague say they experienced a lot of joy and a lot of heartbreak all in the course of an hour Sunday morning.
“I woke up and found out we were millionaires,” Jim Sprague said. “(It was) a case of going from rags to riches and back to rags again.”
The newspaper had mistakenly published Friday’s Matchplay numbers in place of Saturday’s Colorado Lottery drawing. In his excitement, Sprague called his children to tell them he’d won the $4.3 million jackpot.
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