The National Lottery described the win as a life-changing amount of money.

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Since the launch of the National Lottery in 1994, dozens of jackpot winners have revealed that they first learned their life had been changed when they checked their numbers on Ceefax.

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To Pham these are Vietnamese who, but for the hand of fate, could very easily have switched places with him in life's lottery.

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