This $3M lottery winner's rags-to-riches story is like nothing you've read before

We've all read of people who are down and out and suddenly win the lottery. But what you're about to read is so far-fetched at first, you'd scarcely believe it.

Could you imagine being a recovering alcoholic, homeless, in debt, with just a few coins in your pocket and no prospect of where your meal is coming from, then doing this?...

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Standing at a railway station lottery store, you reach into your pocket and bring out your last coins. It is all you have left in the world. But you buy a ticket.

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How these 3 multi-millionaire lottery winners won big and kept their jackpot fortune

Rick Kenny is now $100,000 richer after purchasing a losing scratch-off ticket. It's pretty hard to win the lottery if you don't win the lottery.But one man from Virginia Beach, Virginia, is defying expectations. Rick Kenny's scratch-off ticket in the $100,000 Home Changer game was initially a losing draw.

When the Mega Millions lottery game jackpot hit $1.6 billion in 2018, NBC went looking for successful winners. TODAY reporter Joe Fryer went inside the lives of some lottery winners who found happiness after winning the lottery jackpot. VIDEO: NBC TODAY

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