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St. Charles Man Wins $100K On Lotto Ticket
Donald Cooper stopped to get some gas and was surprised to find that the scratch off ticket he had just bought was a $100,000 winner.
A St. Charles man is $100,000 richer this weekend after he hit it big on a Missouri Lottery scratch off ticket.
Donald Cooper, 58, stopped by the Circle K on Droste Road in St. Charles, to fill up with gas and decided to buy a lottery ticket.
When Cooper realized he had won, he initially thought he had won $100.
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“Then I scratched the rest of them, and they were all $10,000. Luckily, I wasn’t driving,” he said in a Missouri Lottery release.
Cooper lives in St. Charles with his wife and three daughters.
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Aside from saving the money, Cooper said he would likely be planning a trip to Las Vegas with his brother and sister-in-law as well as sharing his winnings with his daughters.
What would you do with $100,000? Plan a trip to Vegas like Cooper? Or something else?
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