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Lotto Winner — What If YOU Are the Lucky One?
By OnTopic | February 15, 2010
Lotto Winner: Will You Be A Lucky One?
If you happen to be a lotto winner your life is never going to be the same again. Not only your life, but your friends’ and relatives’ lives will also change, and the change may not always be good. Life-altering things have happened to people who have overnight attained the status of being a lotto winner.
No matter how you have won the lotto, whether you drew the winning numbers yourself or used the windows lotto pro software, the fact is that you will be richer by tens of millions of pounds or euros, and things will start to change almost before you can catch your breath.
Winning a record prize of £ 11 million, Mark Gardiner knew that all his problems were a thing of the past. However, though his current problems vanished, he got into new ones that he was not capable of or trained to handling. Mark won the jackpot with friend and business partner Paul Maddison. Together the two won a record £ 22 million and Mark got his share of £ 11 million. Paul shunned the limelight and retreated into the background — but Mark decided to have some fun.
Before he could understand it, Mark blew half of his winnings. While he gave to friends and relatives, bought expensive cars and houses, married and then divorced, his problems never seemed to end. His family shunned him just as if he had committed a crime. Finally he regained his bearings and is now wiser and remarried to his first wife (a childhood sweetheart) whom he had divorced when he was penniless.
However, not all stories are as heart breaking as the one mentioned above. There have been a great many people who have made good on their fortune and remained grounded. Ianthe Fullagar, just a student, won an astonishing £ 7,055,142. After the usual screaming in disbelief she settled down and called her boyfriend and family and shared the news with them. Ianthe intends to share her new found wealth with her near ones and to continue to pursue a law degree. The only new thing she planned to buy was a new automobile.
One anonymous winner donated all his winnings of million to his church without batting an eye. The church has decided to expand to accommodate their growing congregation; they will also donate some of the money to charities.
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The point is, as a lotto winner you now are in an enviable position to do a lot of good to yourself and to those around you. Also, your community will benefit — if you maintain a cool head and spend the money wisely.
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