A homeless man in Aspen, Colorado, beat 840,000-to-1 odds to win a half-million dollars on a lottery scratch ticket, and "it couldn't happen to a better type of person," a shelter worker said Monday.
"I asked him what he was going tp do, and he said he wanted to get some skis and he really wanted to connect with his daughter who he hadn't seen in over 20 years," Kowalis told KUSA. "He's interested in trying to find out how to go about reaching her and re-connecting with her now that he's got a little bit more means to do so.
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