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| Liam and Tina Ferrone |
An Ottawa area woman, Tina Ferrone, has won the $48 million Lotto Max prize. It is a lottery outcome which will touch the heart of the country. Ms Ferrone’s husband was stricken with cancer in January of 2012 and is out of work. It has been “a long hard road” since then, says Liam Ferrone. He has undergone chemotherapy and stem cell treatment during the succeeding two years. Liam is now said to be in remission. Even with a catastrophic disease like cancer, a $48 million dollar windfall will change the lives of the Kanata, Ontario couple in a way they could never imagine. Liam will repay debt incurred because of his illness. Tina says she wants to start a yoga studio. It’s a lifelong passion. Then they will travel and Liam will buy a truck. Tina bought the ticket “on a whim” last Friday while picking up groceries. She had never played Lotto Max before, and when she checked her ticket Saturday at a Shopper’s Drug Mart she was shocked. “I thought it was $48,000 at first, I couldn’t process what was happening,” she said while picking up her prize in Toronto today (Tuesday, April 1, 2014).
