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Big Money

Tyler Heep won the lottery. He took his ticket to the Iowa Lottery headquarters in Clive and asked for one of those giant checks. “The guy came down the stairs,” Heep said, “and they took me into the back room where the camera was with the Iowa Lottery logo.” And there they took a picture of Heep with his heaping big check for his heaping big prize: $1. He’d won it on a scratch off game. (AC/WHO Des Moines) ...And the cheapest scratch off game listed on the Iowa Lottery website costs $1.
Original Publication Date: 20 January 2019
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 25.

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