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Old 11-13-2005, 07:28 PM  
Mike Okitch
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Do any of you know anyone who's ever won the lottery?
Yes

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Did they completely change? take off and never hear from them again?
No

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did anyone ever actually donate anything to charity like most people like to think they would...
I'm a cheapskate and think that the money will not get to where it's supposed to anyways so I wouldn't. But that lotto winner did give to charity yes.

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did they break off their friends a little chunk, or become really private people??
They where and remained private people. It's really the people around them that changed a lot.

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all these threads about lotteries have got me wondering what exactly happens to people when they go from having nothing, to having everything so fast
That couple divorced a few years after their win but that, without a doubt would have happened with or without winning the lottery. One thing to notice is that it's not them that changed but the people around them. Consequently, they where seeing them as being different when they really where not.
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