It was a last-minute thought: “Do I get out of the car and buy a Lotto ticket?”

Thankfully, the Mandurah shopper did — and it changed her life.

Having just packed her shopping in the car, she hopped out of the driver’s seat and went into Newsxpress Halls Head to buy a Slikpik 18 Powerball ticket.

Later, she checked the ticket — finding to her great surprise that she had won $20 million.

She then spent the rest of the night regularly waking to check it wasn’t all a dream.

“I kept waking up in the night thinking I had dreamt it, checked my numbers again and went through the same disbelief,” the winner , aged in her 60s, said.

“My eyes were blurry from staring at the ticket so much.”

The woman is looking forward to buying her own home — with chickens — and giving to her favourite chari

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