A Virginia university student received a lottery ticket in his Christmas stocking worth a million dollars.
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Brian Donohue - who studies maths at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville - got a jackpot winning lottery ticket from the Bank A Million draw - as a gift from his mother during the festive period.
The ticket was from the December 22nd draw and the winning number combination of 4-8-21-25-32-35 made the student a millionaire - defying odds of one in 3.8 million.
Brian says that he will use part of his winnings to pay for his college education - as well as that of his sister's - but he has unsure of what else he will do with the jackpot.