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Stocking-Stuffer Lottery Ticket Is Winner For Dog

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OCOEE (CBSMiami/AP) — A Christmas tradition for a Florida man to buy Lottery tickets as stocking stuffers including for his dog, ended up with a hefty win.

And the dog, ended up with a $3 million winning ticket in his stocking this past Christmas.

Florida Lottery officials said Friday that Kelly decided to take a lump sum of $2.3 million for the winning ticket in the $600,000 Gold Rush Scratch-Off game.

The winning ticket was purchased at a Publix supermarket in Ocoee, a suburb of Orlando.

Florida Lottery officials didn't know the name of the dog.

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