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Australian lottery winner takes his time
Aug 20, 2009, 11:41 GMT
Sydney - An Australian man waited seven months before claiming a 2-million-Australian-dollar (1.6-million-US-dollar) lottery prize because he needed time to get used to the idea of being rich.
'I'm a bit of a crazy sort of bloke,' the 48-year-old winner told NSW Lotteries Thursday. 'There was something about claiming that much money that I wasn't ready for. I had to get my head around it.'
The winner, who wants to remain anonymous, said just having the ticket in a tin at home was comforting.
'I actually thought about leaving it another couple of months,' he said. 'When you're running a small business, you never know where the next dollar is coming from, and it was a comforting thing to have the ticket as a buffer against anything that might go wrong financially.'
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