Nonetheless,
she and Vaughn Avery, her companion of 36 years — with whom she has three children and 11 grandchildren — had talked around campfires about what they would do if they ever did strike it rich.
"We want to buy a bunch of land," Leach said, and bring all the kids and grandkids together and "have our own little community."
Leach said when she returned home that night, she woke up Avery, who works at a metal casting company. The two discussed their good fortune,
and then he told her he had to go back to sleep before work the next day.
"I said, 'Are you crazy? We don't have to work anymore!'" she said. She also joked that while she has always been happy without being married, if he proposed now,
"he'd have to sign a prenup."