One major chance moment can change your life forever.
"I would like to thank the Lord for giving me this opportunity and blessing me with his great fortune. I will not squander it," he graciously said when accepting his check. And he didn't. He used those winnings to pay off his existing debts and buy his ranch, nearly 50,000 acres.
He helped not just others in his family, but his community as well. Recently, he and his wife moved to her family's cattle ranch in British Columbia, listing the ranch for over $40 million.. Their share of the jackpot when all was said and done was $28.7 million.Nine years after their big win, the couple decided to honor their parents with a big donation of $250,000 to their hometown's new water park.
"I won the type of money where you could pay cash for a three-bedroom, two-bath house with .36 acres in a county where housing prices were below the national average and then have nothing left. Yes, it's specific because that's what I did. I never told any family ... The purchase of that home happened when I was 25, so 11 years ago. Since then, I got married and had a kid and have an all-around nice and pleasant life.
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