Nick Ruth has been playing the Maryland Lottery for just over a year, but this past Friday, he said it "just felt right." Following that intuition made him $250,000 richer.

A beaming Nick said he checked the numbers again and again. "I couldn't believe it, so I asked my mom to look at the ticket. Once we figured out how much I'd won, we started to run all over the house screaming. After we calmed down, we looked at each other and started screaming and running again."

When asked what he was going to do with his windfall, the 19-year-old, who has been in remission from leukemia for seven years, said: "As a cancer survivor, it is really important for me to give back. I want to ‘pay forward' what some wonderful local organizations did for me, so I am definitely going to donate money to cancer organizations."  He also plans to pay off his car and put money in his bank account.

In the meantime, the dishwasher/barback isn't planning on taking time off from his current minimum-wage job. "Nick is a kind and hard-working person with a great work ethic," his mother added, "but he's not going to let this win go to his head. He will be at work right on time tonight."

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