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Big Lottery Win Makes Man Late for Dinner

A Greenville man who stopped by the store to purchase a lottery ticket was $200,000 richer when he arrived home to a cold dinner

Honey, I'm home!

Dinner was cold, but all was forgiven.

A Greenville man late for dinner surprised his wife with a winning lottery ticket.

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The winner told S.C. Education Lottery officials while he was eating his wife was rattling off plans for the $200,000. She mentioned a new roof, paying off their mortgages and helping the kids.

The man did have to tell his wife the $200,000 win was before taxes.

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"I told the guy behind the counter at Bells to give me a jackpot winning ticket,” the winner told lottery officials. “I need another one.”

Three top prizes of $200,000 remain in the Blue Sapphire Bucks game.

Bells on Old Easley Highway in Greenville will get $2,000 for selling the ticket.

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