In November 2006, his life changed beyond recognition. He bought a lottery ticket while on the highway to Miami. It turned out to be the winning Lotto ticket worth US$30 million.
Winning a lottery can turn out to be a setback. This was the sorry fate of Abraham Shakespeare, a manual worker in Florida, who won the lottery in 2006.
It was unclear whether Shakespeare was a descendant of the man who wrote Hamlet. However, Shakespeare’s fate was tragic.
