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If this does not touch your heart then you just don’t have one¦¦.



Can you believe it?



This guy wins $181 million in the lottery last Wednesday, and then finds the love of his life just 2 days later.



Talk about LUCK!!!! ¦.



Mr. Lucky and the love of his life.

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And then there's this story:



After the Big Win: True love: lottery winner reveals secret only after engagement



He wore shabby clothes, drove a wreck and took Lisa on cheap dates. Then they got engaged and Joe revealed the truth: having been stung by other women, he'd concealed his £10 million lottery fortune from her.

Lisa Johnson treasures a ring given to her by husband Joe even though it is unremarkable, with a tiny stone, and cost less than £200 from High-Street jeweler H. Samuel.

It was her Christmas present during their first heady months of dating, and when he presented it to her, she was thrilled.

'I could see Joe didn't have a lot of money,' she recalls. 'So for him to spend what little he had on such a thoughtful gift was lovely. It meant the world to me — it still does.'

Ten months later, when Joe proposed, she tearfully accepted. It was only once they were engaged that he told her he had a secret.

Far from being hard-up, he was a £10 million (US$16.2 million) lottery winner, with a property portfolio, a fleet of expensive cars and the money to fly around the world in private jets.

Lisa says: 'When he first told me the truth, I was furious. Our whole life together had been a lie.

'I thought he was a struggling divorce who could only afford to take me to cheap noodle bars and Beefeater restaurants. Suddenly, he was telling me he could afford anything he wanted. It felt like a betrayal.

'It was only when he explained how badly he'd been hurt before, by women who just wanted his money, that I started to realize why he'd gone to such lengths to hide his fortune from me.

'Now we are married, I'm relieved that he did lie. Because there is a 23-year age gap between us, people sometimes look at me and think I'm after his money.

'But I can say with complete honesty that I fell in love with a man who I believed had nothing.'

The extraordinary story of how multi-millionaire Joe kept his fortune a secret from his wife-to-be reads like a script from a Hollywood movie and involved an intricate web of deceit.

'I would drive to meet Lisa in an old, dirty Land Rover,' says Joe. 'I dressed down, took her to a £20 noodle bar for our first date and let her pay half on all our meals out.

'When I did take her home, I pretended I was house-sitting for a rich friend. Our first holiday together was a £200 budget break in Tenerife in a two-star hotel.

'I forced myself to carry on deceiving Lisa because I wanted to ask her to marry me - and I had to know for sure that she was saying yes for the right reason.'

Lisa, 40, was a single mother with a five-year-old son when she first met Joe Johnson in October 2000.

She says: 'My eight-year marriage had just ended and I was working in a cafe trying to build a new life with my son Alfie.

'Joe started coming into the cafe in the mornings for breakfast before work. Then he would come back for a coffee in the afternoon and sit talking to the waitresses.

'To begin with, he annoyed me by placing orders and joking about how long it took to get served. But when I said something about my divorce and he told me he had raised his children on his own, I realized what a kind and caring man he was.

'After some weeks of talking, he asked me out for a meal. The last thing I was looking for was a new romance, but I was desperately lonely and said yes, for the company.

'Joe picked me up from the two-bedroom flat I rented in Clayhall, Essex. He was dressed in jeans and an old top and he asked me if I liked Chinese food.

'I was delighted. I imagined a lovely little restaurant with a quiet table for two. Instead, Joe took me to a cheap noodle bar. I was stunned.

'People were squeezed onto long benches. We sat opposite each other, but any conversation was impossible because of the people on either side.

'The bill came to £20 and I asked Joe if he wanted me to pay half. He thanked me and took my money.

'It sounds incredible looking back, but I didn't mind, because I was used to paying my own way.

'Joe asked me out again the following week and this time he took me to a Beefeater pub. I offered to pay my half again and once more Joe accepted. When I told my sister, she said "He does seem quite tight with money", but I didn't care.

'Joe told me he was a printer and I simply assumed he didn't earn much. But he was generous in spirit, a kind man who made me feel special when we were together.'

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Rapunzel;1284555 wrote: If this does not touch your heart then you just don’t have one¦¦.



Can you believe it?



This guy wins $181 million in the lottery last Wednesday, and then finds the love of his life just 2 days later.



Talk about LUCK!!!! ¦.



Mr. Lucky and the love of his life.


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Famous Mrs Merton quote.....

"But what first, Debbie, attracted you to the millionaire Paul Daniels?"

Oh she is clever. SHE was desperately lonely huh?

That's what I would do, find out the list of winners, seek them out and accidently run into them. Then sit back and wait .

She was shocked? My arse she was shocked. It's easy to find lists of millionares in bank records if you work in a bank, or you work in realestate or in retail or on the internet.

I believe this like I believe in Santa Claus :wah: