13 things lotto winners won't tell you

Past lottery winners weigh in on losing friends, becoming spectacles, and increasing the odds of striking it rich.

Sources: Donna Mikkin, who won $34.5 million in the New York State Lottery in 2007; Sandra Hayes, a social worker who split a $224 million Powerball with her coworkers in 2006 and wrote How Winning the Lottery Changed My Life; seven-time lottery game grand-prize winner Richard Lustig, who wrote Learn How to Increase Your Chances of Winning the Lottery; and Don McNay, a financial consultant to lottery winners and the author of Life Lessons from the Lottery.

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