The USA TODAY lottery winner's story
A couple weeks ago, I mentioned the passing of Bob Twigg, the USA TODAY staffer before my time who notably won the lottery in 1996. At the time of my post, Twigg's 1A account of winning wasn't online. But friend Doug at On Deadline has since posted the full text, and resulting reader comments were warmly terrific. The article's worth your time.
FAIRFAX, Va. — $9,095,073.60.
I just wrote that number without looking at notes.
It's the offspring of six others: 3-15-17-28-33-37.
Those numbers were printed on the red and white ticket I held in my right hand as I sat at my computer here in USA TODAY's newsroom Sunday morning.
December 9th, 2009 at 11:10 AM
This is great, Patrick.
December 10th, 2009 at 2:55 AM
Nice to see universally warm reaction to an event in one's life — and, maybe more surprisingly, the extended coverage of it.