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Ashley Eggen, of Elizabethtown, with her Mega Millions lottery prize of $ 1 million on October 9, 2018.(Photo: Kentucky Lottery)

Last Friday, Ashley Eggen went to Elizabethtown's Neighborhood Market store and paid $ 2 for a ticket to the Mega Millions lottery.

On Saturday morning Elizabethtown's wife realized that the couple's money cost her $ 1 million because she won the Mega Millions award.

Eggen won the award on Monday, Kentucky Lottery officials said.

His ticket matched the five winning numbers, but not the Powerball, which gave him the second prize, according to a Kentucky Lottery press release.

The lottery officials were looking for the winner since the Mega Millions ticket draw on Friday night.

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Eggen, 33, told lottery officials that she usually did not check her tickets right away, but while waiting for her 5-year-old son to get ready on Saturday morning, she checked the winning numbers on her computer notebook, according to the release.

"I sat there for a minute. I thought, wait a second, it's a million dollars. I've just started screaming, "Eggen said in the statement, adding that her son had started screaming with her.

Eggen tried to call her mother to tell him the big news, but needed seven calls to reach her, the statement said.

"I thought something was wrong," said Eggen's mother, Gail, in the press release.

Eggen wants only one thing: a house for her and her son, who would like to have a pool, the statement said.

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"Just having a basement and a porch," Eggen said in a statement.

The odds of winning second prize are 1 in 12,607,306, according to Kentucky Lottery.

The neighborhood market store will receive $ 10,000 for the sale of the winning ticket. After taxes, Eggen earned $ 710,000, according to the Kentucky Lottery.

"When I hear about someone who wins the lottery, I think, man, they were lucky," Eggen said. "I never thought I would be sitting here."

Billy Kobin: [email protected]; 502-582-7030.

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