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anyone can win the lottery but some
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people need the money more than others
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imagine being homeless at one of the
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lowest points of your life living on the
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streets only to be blessed with the
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lottery win that's the story of the
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people in this video whilst buying
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lottery tickets definitely isn't the
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best way to get rich the story of these
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homeless people will make you glad they
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want amazing number 10
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Michael egg falls 61 year old michael
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egg falls of Aspen Colorado was homeless
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for six years after losing his business
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and going through a divorce but he never
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let his misfortune dampen his spirits he
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was described by gas station clerk Gabby
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Garcia as a regular lottery player who
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only usually won a dollar or two some
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might say that there were more important
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things to be spending his money on but
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Mike was bet paid off beating the
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astronomical odds of eight hundred and
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forty thousand to one he won five
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hundred thousand dollars on a $10 ticket
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five hundred thousand dollars that's
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half a million imagine dropping that
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chunk of change into your wallet what
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did Michael plan to do with all that
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cold hard cash where most people would
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have bought a mini mansion or at least
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restarted their business Michael only
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wanted to do one thing to find his
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daughter who he hadn't seen for over 20
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years number nine Emily Rhea's just off
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the infamous route 66 doesn't exactly
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sound like the most likely place to
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catch a lucky break but that's precisely
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what happened to the next person on this
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list when Texan Emily Reyes found
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herself part of the growing homeless
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population in her hometown desperate and
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addicted to drugs and alcohol
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Emily hit rock bottom when she ended up
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in prison after stealing to support her
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habit when she was released from the
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Amarillo jail Emily surprised more than
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a few people but perhaps herself most of
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all by buckling down and accomplishing
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the truly momentous task of pulling her
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life back together with a minimal
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support system she promptly checked
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herself into a woman's homeless shelter
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and craving by craving clawed her way to
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sobriety she was celebrating six months
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of being sober when she bought a Texas
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two-step lottery ticket in a stroke of
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good luck Emily won two hundred thousand
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dollars matching all four numbers in the
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Thursday drawing she planned to use the
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money to get a fresh start in life
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made sure to pay it forward by sharing
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some of her winnings with some other
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women at the shelter
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number eight grant Freeman by all
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accounts grant Freeman shouldn't have
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been able to win the lottery considering
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that there is no actual lottery in
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Nevada an avid gambler Freeman made his
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way to Las Vegas with high hopes of
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hitting it big along the strip
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unfortunately as so often happens he
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instead lost everything and was forced
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to live on the streets begging spare
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change off of tourists only to spend it
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all on the slot machines that very same
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night but he could only go so long
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before such an unhealthy lifestyle took
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its toll on him Freeman got himself the
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heck out of Dodge
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hitchhiking 40 miles to Nipton
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California it was there that he spent $2
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on two Mega Millions tickets which he
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paid for in pennies I bet that cashier
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was amused the lucky stars must have
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been shining on him that day because
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Freeman one on both tickets $8 on one
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and on the second he won an enormous 180
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thousand dollars he has since reportedly
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turned his life around and has learned
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his lesson about gambling though he is
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known to buy a ticket or to once in a
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while number 7
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Victor Herrera there is no denying that
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while Miami Florida is considered a
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beautiful place it also has some of the
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most brutally hot summers Victor Herrera
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found himself face to face with that
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heat when he became homeless following a
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divorce he and his son were thankfully
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able to move in with his sister but her
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apartment was cramped before they got
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there and lacked air conditioning one
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night it was particularly hot so hot in
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fact that Herrera found he couldn't
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sleep hoping for relief he got up and
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walked down to the store to purchase a
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bag of ice instead he came out with a $5
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lottery ticket that particular ticket
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beat the 50 million to one odds and
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earned Herrara
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an astounding 250,000 dollars that very
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night he his son and his sister checked
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into a hotel and turned the a/c on full
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blast Herrera has since used his
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winnings to buy an actual house for his
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child to grow up in with air
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conditioning of course number six Erik
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from magic of rahat the next person in
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this list didn't even officially win the
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lottery but a homeless man named Erik
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and internet stardom after being
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featured on the hit YouTube channel
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magic of rahat in this particular video
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roh-hatz gave Eric a lottery ticket and
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handed the clerk one thousand dollars so
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that Eric could experience what it was
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like to win the lottery millions of
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hearts across the globe melted when Eric
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burst into tears of relief and even
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offered to share his winnings with rah
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hat touched by his selfless gesture the
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people of the internet banded together
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to raise enough money to give this young
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man a fresh start
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twenty thousand dollars seemed like a
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lofty goal but this goal was not simply
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met it was exceeded a total amount of
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forty-four thousand dollars was raised
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to help get Eric back on his feet the
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majority of the money was used to rent
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and furnish a house whilst the rest was
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put into a monitored bank account talk
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about getting lucky great job rahat and
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the people of the Internet number five
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Steve boric imagine if he got the win of
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lifetime you buy that ticket because hey
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why not it's fun but you're not
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expecting that much after all how many
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of us even know someone who's won more
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than ten bucks in the lottery but
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imagine if you want twenty five thousand
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dollars what would you do with that
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money would you buy a car maybe you
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could finally pay some of those bills
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you're behind on Steve boric couldn't
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even get a hotel room because this
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homeless lottery winner was not allowed
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to claim his prize due to a situation in
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his life two years prior he lacked the
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ID required to collect such a large
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winning when he tried to get a new one
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he was told he needed a birth
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certificate or passport the real
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catch-22 was that both of these
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documents required a form of
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identification to get them in the first
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place after five months of trying steve
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could only hope he'd be inside by
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christmas time thankfully some amazing
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individuals at CBC News volunteered
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their time to make a few calls and track
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down the proper paperwork for him to
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receive his birth certificate while
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Steve did miss his Christmas deadline a
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little more than eight months after he
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hit it big he was finally allowed to
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collect his money number four
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l谩szl贸 Andrews check this person won one
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of the largest amounts in this video but
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it's what he intends to do with this
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money that really earns him his spot in
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2013
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l谩szl贸 Andrews check was a recovering
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alcoholic who was in debt up to his
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eyeballs
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he'd been homeless for seven years and
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described his life as him always trying
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to plug holes by making new ones facing
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yet another year of homelessness Lazlo
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made a choice that most would have
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considered foolish when he stopped at a
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train station on his way to Budapest and
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spent the last few coins to his name on
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a lottery ticket he recalled picking six
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numbers only to have the cashier remind
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him it needed to be seven he told her
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just to make it 24 it wasn't like it
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ever matters ho-hoo but it did Laszlo
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stunningly won 636 million forint that's
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the equivalent to nearly 2.5 million
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American dollars in 2017 obviously this
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changed his life forever what's equally
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amazing was that his win wasn't even
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noticed until 2014 when he made a
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significant donation to the homeless
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shelter he and his wife had lived that
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this guy was a careful spender with his
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and his family's debts paid off this
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amazingly unique man turned his
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attention towards creating a foundation
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for addict and battered women hoping to
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offer them refuge in a world that so
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often tries to deny their very existence
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number three Krystal Nelson Krystal
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Nelson was living in a cramped truck
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with a friend for five whole months
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delivering papers for the daily journal
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in Illinois when she found out she'd won
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$50,000 on a Powerball ticket in July of
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2017
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despite this shocking win Nelson
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maintained that her life would not
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change no big spending or impulse
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purchases for this gem of a human being
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she didn't even seem to be in a hurry to
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find an apartment though she thought she
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might get a new car and was going to
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help her brother in Arizona pay off his
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house think about it you're living in a
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car for five months with another person
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and the first thing you'd think of doing
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when you win the lottery isn't getting a
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new place to stay yourself it's helping
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your family keep their she certainly set
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the bar high for selflessness though she
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did admit that she would like to
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possibly take a vacation to Arizona or
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Kentucky sometime and that it might be
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nice to find someplace to live that was
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more permanent than a parking lot number
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two Dennis Maher and Dennis had been
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homeless since 1978 approximately 25
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years before he won $50,000 in the
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Michigan lottery in 2013
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did he use this money to buy a
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flat-screen TV or a shining new truck
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maybe just the house nope
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Dennis bought himself a new
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tenth no one would have faulted him if
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he'd used that money to help get his
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life back together but apparently as far
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as he was concerned it already was
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he used the rest of the money to help
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out his fellow members of the homeless
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community as someone who knew what it
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was like to hit rock bottom he decided
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to pay it forward and share $100 with
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just shy of 500 other homeless people
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he had his critics some people who
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stated that if he couldn't even take
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care of himself he had no business
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helping others but I think that most of
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us agree that this man is incredible and
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one heck of a decent human being number
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one Emily leach gives ticket to homeless
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man this one isn't exactly about someone
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so generous Emily leach struck paydirt
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in January of 2011 winning a whopping 1
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million dollars in Mountain View
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California she used this much needed
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money to pay off a substantial medical
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debt by yet more tickets and to pass out
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random acts of kindness one such act was
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to hand $100 to a homeless man behind
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her in a line at the very same gas
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station where she purchased her original
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winning ticket in the process of this
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transaction emily claims she
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accidentally handed the man one of her
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scratch tickets an act of generosity
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that turned out to be far grander and
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either of them could have imagined when
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she learned the same homeless man won
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two hundred and sixty thousand dollars
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on her ticket and was according to her
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even claiming that some of her luck had
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rubbed off on him she complained to the
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California Lottery Commission
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investigations into her claims seem only
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to prove that leach gave that man the
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ticket footage even reportedly shows her
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giving tickets to several other people
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in the store the Lottery Commission
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maintained that it could not comment on
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who owned the ticket until it was
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claimed but they did say that the
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chances of winning 1 million in the
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previous January's jackpot were one in
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1.2 million but to win that 260 thousand
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dollars was a whopping one in 3.9
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million
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odds so there you have it what would you
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do if you won the jackpot let me know in
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