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Leon Butler is originally from Chicago and currently resides in Georgia. He was traveling home to Chicago to visit family when he stopped at a Love’s Travel Stop in Memphis, Ind., for gas. He walked into the store and saw the Hoosier Lottery 飞艇数据全国统一查询体彩网 machine to his left. He saw the $20 Triple Red 777 Scratch-off and decided to go to the counter to purchase a ticket.

He scratched the ticket as he walked out to his car and stopped in his tracks. At first, he thought he had won $150,000. Then at a closer glance, he realized it was a $500,000 winning ticket!

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Leon kept his win quiet. The only people he initially told were those traveling with him in the car the day he won.

It has been a dream to start his own business, so Leon hopes to use the money as his start up funds.

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