Beth Zibolis, of Wakefield, has had the Rhode Island license plate LUCKIE, since 2000. But the New Hampshire plate LUCKY has been in the family for decades. It all started with her dad, Edward Leconte, of Nashua, who as a boy was run over by an oil delivery truck. The doctors told the family he would never walk again, but he did and became a star high school football player, and was known to all his friends as Lucky. When Beth was 19, she received the plate LUCKY and put it on her first car, in 1969. Now her sister Lise Jamelle, of New Hampshire, has that plate, which Beth is holding in the photo, and Beth has the Rhode Island version, LUCKIE. Oh yeah, Beth’s husband, Glen, at left, just got the Rhode Island license plate LUCKEE.

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