Monday, December 13, 2010
Couple Win $11.2M Lottery, Then Give It All Away
I thought this was a pretty cool story...
By Mara Gay (http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/couple-win-11-2m-lottery-then-give-it-all-away/19702898?test=latestnews)
So when the Canadian couple hit it big in the lottery this year, they decided to give it away -- all of it. Since their July win, the elderly couple has donated nearly every cent of their $11.2 million winnings to charity. Call it the Larges' largess.
"What you've never had, you never miss," Violet Large, 78, told The Chronicle Herald in Canada. She and her 74-year-old husband, who live in Nova Scotia, said they first made sure their family was taken care of. But then, she said, they decided the money was "a big headache."
So in a matter of just four months, they gave away the rest of their millions to the Red Cross, the Salvation Army and local churches, according to The Chronicle Herald. They also donated money to the hospitals where Violet Large was fighting cancer this year. [READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE HERE]...
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church,
generosity
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