Couple hits lottery; shares all winnings

LOWER TRURO, Nova Scotia, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- A Canadian couple say they don't regret blowing through their $11.2 million lottery winnings because they gave their sudden bounty away.

Violet Large, who with her husband, Allen, hit the multimillion-dollar winner in July, said, "What you've never had, you never miss," the LotteryPost.com reported.

Since the Larges don't live large in Lower Truro, Nova Scotia, they decided to give their winnings to family and organizations.

"We have an old house, but we're comfortable and we're happy in it," the 78-year-old Violet Large said of their philanthropic decision about their Lotto 6-49 winnings.

"We were pretty well set, not millionaires, but comfortable," Allen Large, 75, said, adding that all that green "was a big headache."

The payoff came while Violet Large was undergoing treatment for cancer doctors discovered in the spring. She finished her last round of chemotherapy a week ago, LotteryPost.com said.

"That money that we won was nothing," Allen Large said. "We have each other."

After family, the couple delivered donations to groups and organizations such as the local fire department, churches, cemeteries, the Red Cross, the Salvation Army, hospitals, and organizations that fight cancer, Alzheimer's and diabetes.