A Win Enough For An Entire Family To Retire On

Lottery winners have different plans for their fortunes. Some are content to live relatively unchanged lives, some who don’t need the money give it all away, many proceed to lead lives of leisure and a large percentage retire.

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Should a winner share with his parents?  Should he be generous even if they have disowned him for being gay?  These are questions now troubling a gay man who won a $15 million lottery jackpot.

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People generally play the lottery because they dream of winning big jackpots.  So when Illinois Lottery officials announced a delay in payouts for prizes in excess of $600, interest in the tickets waned. 

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When Camelot relaunched the lottery last month, they pledged to make 25 players millionaires.  Unfortunately, however, a human error caused the wrong Millionaire Raffle codes to be shown in their websites during the first 40 minutes after the draw.

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This week, an obedient daughter followed her mother’s advice to buy instant tickets and won $1 million and a man who made sure he had money to play the lottery even during retirement was rewarded with a million dollars too.

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For people dreaming of owning high performance motorcycles, the Georgia Lottery has the Harley Davidson instant ticket.  And two happy winners have so far landed the coveted motorbikes.

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When her mother suggested she buy one of the new scratch tickets of the North Carolina Education Lottery, Latia Gaston of Gastonia followed the advice.  She dutifully bought a $10 “Holiday Gold” instant lottery ticket from the Kangaroo Express on East Franklin Boulevard.

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After playing the same set of numbers for years, a Chester couple bagged the biggest prize ever in the South Carolina Mega Millions lottery.  They were in shopping at a grocery when the girlfriend began screaming “You won.”

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A  syndicate composed of two dozen Irish members has just posted a significant Euromillions Lottery win.  The syndicate from Ballybrown GAA club in Limerick won €192,935 after matching five numbers and a lucky star in the Friday draw.

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A  firefighter received a pleasant surprise from the lottery a month before he retires.  Dave Hebert, who is also an Army veteran, won $100,000.  The Powerball ticket Hebert bought showed him winning just $50,000, but that was doubled since he paid extra for the Power Play option.

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