Thursday, November 04, 2010

Living "Large"

Classy People...


Check out this story about an average blue collar Canadian couple that won over $11 million in the lottery and GAVE MOST OF IT AWAY...


A retired Canadian couple who won $11.3 million in the lottery in July have already given it all away.


"What you've never had, you never miss," 78-year-old Violet Large explained to a local reporter.


She was undergoing chemotherapy treatment for cancer when the couple realized they'd won the jackpot in July.


"That money that we won was nothing," her tearful husband, Allen, told Patricia Brooks Arenburg of the Nova Scotia Chronicle Herald. "We have each other."

The money was a "headache," they told the paper...

Of course they probably had to give about $5 million of the cash to the government in the form or taxes, so that was basically wasted, but still...see...some people do manage to let sudden wealth not totally destroy their lives.

I don't know if I could do something like that myself, but I'd like to think that I would try...

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