Pittsburgh Pharmacist Gives In-Laws $1 Million Lottery Ticket
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A Pittsburgh pharmacist has given his wife's in-laws a Christmas gift that keeps on giving: a Pennsylvania Lottery ticket worth $1 million.
The pharmacist, Fred DePasquale, isn't identifying his wife's relatives, but says he gave them a $20 ticket for the special lottery drawing. The million-dollar drawing featured only 625,000 tickets, including five million-dollar winners.
The Pennsylvania Lottery Commission will give DePasquale $5,000 because he bought the ticket from his pharmacy, The Medicine Shoppe in the city's Brookline neighborhood.
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DePasquale says he doesn't want the ticket back. He says that would be like giving someone a shirt for Christmas, and then asking if he could wear it on New Year's Eve.