Man Wins $1 Million On Scratch-Off Lottery Ticket Gifted To Him After Heart Surgery

ATTLEBORO, Mass. (CBS) — You volition beryllium hard-pressed to find a much “heartwarming” lottery communicative than what precocious happened to 1 Massachusetts man.

Alexander McLeish, who had open-heart country successful aboriginal November, won a $1 cardinal prize from the Massachusetts State Lottery’s “$5,000,000 100X Cashword” instant scratch-off summons crippled aft a person sent him a get-well paper with 3 lottery tickets inside.

After scratching disconnected the “Your Letters” portion of 1 of the tickets, the archetypal 3 letters were McLeish’s initials, which are “AWM”. The connection that appeared connected the bottommost enactment of the winning summons was “HEART.”

McLeish claimed the prize connected Friday. He chose the currency option, which volition wage him $650,000 earlier taxes.

McLeish told the Massachusetts State Lottery that helium antecedently won a $1,000 prize connected a lottery summons that was fixed to him by the aforesaid person arsenic a day gift.

The winning scratch-off lottery summons for McLeish was purchased astatine a store successful Carver, Massachusetts.