Undergoing heart surgery brought an unexpected financial windfall for a Massachusetts man who got a get-well card from a friend with a lottery ticket inside that turned out to be worth $1 million. There were a total of three scratch-off tickets in the card Alexander McLeish received, including the lucky one. Several years ago, the same friend gave McLeish a lottery ticket as a birthday gift that won him a $1,000 prize. McLeish chose to accept his prize as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $650,000 before taxes.
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