A retired Canadian couple who won $11.3 million in the lottery in July have already given it (almost) all away.

"What you've never had, you never miss," 78-year-old Violet Large explained to a local reporter.

She was undergoing chemotherapy treatment for cancer when the couple realized they'd won the jackpot in July.

"That money that we won was nothing," her tearful husband, Allen, told Patricia Brooks Arenburg of the Nova Scotia Chronicle Herald. "We have each other."

The money was a "headache," they told the paper--mainly, it brought anxiety over the prospect that "crooked people" might take advantage of them. Several people called them out of the blue to ask for money when the news first broke that they'd won the jackpot. So they began an $11 million donation spree to get rid of it and help others, the Chronicle Herald reports:

They took care of family first and then began delivering donations to the two pages' worth of groups they had decided on, including the local fire department, churches, cemeteries, the Red Cross, the Salvation Army, hospitals in Truro and Halifax, where Violet underwent her cancer treatment, and organizations that fight cancer, Alzheimer's and diabetes. The list goes on and on.

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. . . The money was a "headache," they told the paper

--mainly, it brought anxiety over the prospect that "crooked people" might take advantage of them.

Several people called them out of the blue to ask for money when the news first broke that they'd won the jackpot

So they began an $11 million donation spree to get rid of it and help others . . .

@^^^

O ma se ooo 

but have they not heard of "anonymity" eh?  

UGH!!!! People knew because they opened their damn mouths. Jeez I wish I knew so I can go get my cut.

it had to be in the news. I mean u can't win $11 million and people wouldn't know.

interesting and quite unusual.

I never thought their were people who still could treat money that way.

Couple Win $11.2M Lottery, Then Give It All Away

(Nov. 4) -- Allen and Violet Large figured they were lucky enough already.

So when the Canadian couple hit it big in the lottery this year, they decided to give it away -- all of it. Since their July win, the elderly couple has donated nearly every cent of their $11.2 million winnings to charity. Call it the Larges' largess.

"What you've never had, you never miss," Violet Large, 78, told The Chronicle Herald in Canada. She and her 74-year-old husband, who live in Nova Scotia, said they first made sure their family was taken care of. But then, she said, they decided the money was "a big headache."

So in a matter of just four months, they gave away the rest of their millions to the Red Cross, the Salvation Army and local churches, according to The Chronicle Herald. They also donated money to the hospitals where Violet Large was fighting cancer this year.

The Larges play the lottery twice a week and say they'd never won more than $1,000 before this year. But July 14 was different. After choosing numbers in "Lotto 649" that day, Violet Large said she first thought they'd won only $10. Then, she took a closer look and was in shock. "'Oh my God,'" she said she told Allen that day at the couple's home, according to the Truro Daily News. "I said, 'Come and check these numbers.'"

But Allen Large, a retired steel worker, said he was more concerned with his wife's health than with the cash. "That money that we won was nothing," he said. "We have each other."

Violet, who has completed her treatment, told the paper that she and Allen were happy to be done with the money and have no interest in living extravagantly. "We're the lucky ones," she said. "I have no complaints." The humble couple, who did not immediately return a call for comment today from AOL News, will not say how much they gave to each charity.

Source:http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/couple-win-11-2m-lottery-then-give-it-all-away/19702898
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That couple understand what life and living is all about.

At that age, you should't be hogging money!

"A man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions."

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UGH!!!! People knew because they opened their damn mouths. Jeez I wish I knew so I can go get my cut.

Jeez, how daft can you be?
The winners are announced with much fanfare. It's really distasteful that you can use such words like 'damn' when referring to this couple, even after you know that

1. They're old
2. The wife is battling cancer
3. They're giving away a huge chunk of the money to charities to help others.