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OneGrassRoot

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Tue Apr 2, 2013, 06:00 AM Apr 2013

$1 million! Three friends honor long-time pact to split lottery winnings






All for one, and $1 million for all.

Three long-time chums who made a pact to split the pot if one of them ever won the lottery got their payday last week, Georgia Lottery officials announced on Thursday.

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Wilson will be splitting it three ways with Scoles and his cousin, Sanford Watson, who also lives in Macon.

“I was just as tickled for them as I was for myself,” Wilson told NBC News. “We just had a verbal agreement and I felt like that had to be honored.”


FULL ARTICLE: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/22/17417065-1-million-three-friends-honor-long-time-pact-to-split-lottery-winnings?lite


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