$100,000 lottery win ends man's years-long bad luck streak
66-year-old Bret Chickering says he has had a rough few years.
'I went through cancer, I'm three years cancer-free now,' he told the Iowa Lottery. 'I fell a year or so ago and broke my hip, had a hip replacement. And the radiation from cancer took all my teeth, and that cost me a lot.'
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Chickering says this win took him totally by surprise, but it's hopefully the start of a new, and luckier, chapter.
'It did, which usually doesn't happen. I don't usually have that good of luck!' Chickering said. 'This helps a lot.'
Chickering doesn't have any special plans for his winnings, he's going to save most of the money and continue his job at a manufacturing facility.
The winning ticket was a '20X' scratch ticket purchased at the Harlan Hy-Vee, 2003 Chatburn Avenue. 20X is a $10 scratch game that features seven top prizes of $100,000 and overall odds of 1 in 3.15.
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