Whether to allow winners to remain anonymous or not has always made for lively conversation among lottery aficionados.

Those who favor anonymity point to security concerns and avoiding the hordes of people asking for dole-outs as primary considerations. 

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Here are the different ways the blessings of a lottery jackpot came to visit five lucky people.  You may want to try to:

a) Pull-over to avoid traffic and buy a lottery ticket to pass the time;

b) Use the numbers on a fortune cookie;

c)  Listen to the advice of your girlfriend to go and buy a lottery ticket;

d)  Buy a ticket from a rack corresponding to college uniform numbers; and

e)  Visit a relative in a different state and buy a lottery ticket while you are there.

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In 2009, Michelle Edwards won a life-changing jackpot of £1.9million.  She has since bought a mansion, cars, two yachts and has gone one luxury holidays.  Apparently that is not enough to keep her happy. 

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A ticket sold in Britain has won a Euromillions jackpot of £107.9 million.  The jackpot is the fourth biggest in the history of the National Lottery. 

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A homeless man who offered to share his ‘prize’ after getting pranked into believing he was a lottery winner (see the video here) has inspired a lot of people. 

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What is the best thing to do when you get stuck in heavy traffic?  Most people would be right to say, pull over and wait it out to save on gas and aggravation. 

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A very lucky man was blessed to be alive after his parachute got entangled with power lines in Florida.  And what does he do to celebrate? 

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Jim and Maureen Emerton  visited Grantham’s Wyndham Park – to help celebrate the fact that 50 Lincolnshire residents have won £20,000 Lotto Raffle prizes in six months time. 

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A poor store clerk who claims to have been working hard all her life has won a $1 million jackpot from the first lottery ticket she has ever bought.

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There were celebrations in New Hampshire as the state’s lottery marked half a century of operations March 12.  The oldest lottery in the US is proud of its history and the more than $1.5 billion it has raised for education purposes.

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