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Homeless Man Wants to Buy Skis And Hit the Slopes After Winning Big

Homeless Man Wants to Buy Skis And Hit the Slopes After Winning Big
After six years of living on the streets a homeless man's half-million dollar lottery win will let him return to the ski slopes.

A homeless man's luck turned on a dime, with a scratch-off lottery ticket winning him a half-million dollars.

Michael Engfors had been homeless for six years when he bought the ticket Friday at a grocery store in the skiing resort city of Aspen, Colorado — the town where he's lived all his life.

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Before winding up on the streets, he'd lost his business, gone through a divorce, and struggled with alcoholism.

He wants to use the money to reconnect with a daughter he hasn't seen in 20 years, get a place to live, and — since it's Aspen — buy a new pair of skis.

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