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Bravo! Vacationing Player Wins $1,000,000.

Most folks pick up a T-shirt or a mug commemorating their vacation, but Wilman Bravo of Puerto Rico is bringing home a fat wad of green after winning $1 million on a scratch-off lottery ticket.

Bravo, 66, spent 40-plus years raising his three children and working as a press operator in central Connecticut before retiring to Sabana Hoyos, Puerto Rico, last year. He returned to Connecticut recently to visit his kids.

Bravo popped into one of his old favorite pit stops, a Cumberland Farms in New Britain, bought a cup of coffee and two purple-and-green “$100,000,000 Diamond Mine” lottery tickets.

A few scritch-scratches later, Bravo was a millionaire.

“I did a double take,” Bravo told CT Lottery officials. “I took off my glasses, looked at the ticket again, cleaned my glasses, and then looked again.”

Each time he looked, the ticket read the same amount: $1 million.

Bravo may have been overwhelmed, but he’s had practice winning the lottery. In the 1994, he won $100,000.

Some people have all the luck.

But Bravo is a cool guy and he deserves it.

I talked with him about a week after he won and a few days before he returned to Puerto Rico.

He’s gonna help out his family big time. And also enjoy the win himself.

Bravo, I say, to Wilman Bravo!

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