He beat cancer. Then he beat it again. And then he bought a winning lottery ticket worth $4.6 million.
He seems to be his own lucky charm. Stu MacDonald of Bend buys Oregon Lottery tickets every week, and every week, his wife Claudia tells him to"get the winning ticket." She forgot to tell him on September 7, the Oregon Lottery said. But he ended up buying a winning ticket worth $4.6 million. "I am a very lucky guy," he said in a statement."I survived cancer twice and here I am. This is amazing." Read MoreAfter taxes, he took home about $1.5 million.
A spokesman for the Oregon Lottery told CNN MacDonald hadn't agreed to any interviews or to release any images of himself, so you'll have to imagine the grin on his face when he found out about his winnings. Winning the lotto is rare. Like 1 in 300 million rare.MacDonald is lucky, indeed. Winning the lottery is exceedingly rare. The average person's odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot are 1 in 302,575,350.
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