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A real treat: While at the supermarket buying his daughter Tina, 7, a popsicle, Leslie Nascimento checked winning lottery numbers and found he had won $1 million
A real treat: While at the supermarket buying his daughter Tina, 7, a popsicle, Leslie Nascimento checked winning lottery numbers and found he had won $1 million

A real treat: While at the supermarket buying his daughter Tina, 7, a popsicle, Leslie Nascimento checked winning lottery numbers and found he had won $1 million

Date8/30/1983
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Original Toronto Star caption: A real treat: While at the supermarket buying his daughter Tina, 7, a popsicle, Leslie Nascimento checked winning lottery numbers and found he had won $1 million.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0024950F
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