Good People

There's far too much pain, suffering and meanness in the world but it's nice to be reminded that there's also a lot of good.

From The Chronicle Herald (Canada)

They won $11.2 million from a lottery ticket in July. And now every penny is gone. But Allen and Violet Large didn’t spend any of it on themselves. And that’s just the way they like it.

"What you’ve never had, you never miss," said Violet, 78.

Married since 1974, the Lower Truro couple don’t live large. They don’t travel, they don’t gamble and they don’t buy what they don’t need. "We were pretty well set, not millionaires, but comfortable," said Allen, 75.

So when they hit it big in Lotto 6-49’s July 14 draw, they decided to give it all away. All that money "was a big headache," Allen said. But the big win came at a difficult time in their lives: Violet was undergoing treatment for cancer that doctors discovered in the spring. "That money that we won was nothing," said Allen, choking back tears. "We have each other."

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