Grandma's Christmas gift wins student $150,000
Published in Weird News
(UPI) A South Carolina student is starting the semester a little more comfortably after a Christmas gift from his grandmother won him $125,000.
Collin Goff, a sophomore at the University of South Carolina, told South Carolina Education Lottery officials his grandma gifted all of her grandchildren each two scratch-off tickets at the family Christmas celebration in Florence.
Goff said the whole family was stunned when he uncovered the $150,000 prize from a Quick $250! ticket.
"I was shocked," Goff said. We all were.
"It hasn't completely hit me yet," he said. I know I'm not going to do anything differently, just excited to start off 2019 on a good note.
Goff said the ticket represents a dramatic turn in his luck after a year that saw him undergo major brain surgery.
"I had some bad luck," he said. But right now, I'm excited to be going back to school.
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