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VIDEO: 'Buying The Chance To Dream'

Coworkers are combining their forces to buy lottery tickets en masse and win the Mega Millions tonight.

It is lottery fever here in New Hampshire!

Ticket sales are going through the roof as the jackpot for the New Hampshire Lottery's Mega Millions jackpot goes past $640 million.

Patch visited the Mobil station in Amherst today and people were lining up for a chance at that money.

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We met Pat Rossier, an employee as DevTech Labs in Amherst, who was buying a stack of chances for her office lottery pool. She said that they were "buying the chance to dream."

Employees at NH Lottery locations across the area are busy dealing with the demand, with one employee at Mobil shaking his head at how "crazy" these people can be.

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Did you get your ticket? What would you do with the money if you won?


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