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$1 million! Three Friends Honor Long-time Pact to Split Lottery Winnings

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$1 million! Three Friends Honor Long-time Pact to Split Lottery Winnings
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. "I was just as tickled for them as I was for myself," Kenneth Wilson told NBC News. "We just had a verbal agreement and I felt like that had to be honored."

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.

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

To make a good story even better, one of the friends had cracked open a fortune cookie on that day in early March when Wilson bought the ticket. His fortune? "You're going to win the lottery."

(READ the story from NBC News)

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