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Mark and Cindy Hill may be the nicest lottery winners ever.\u00a0 After winning $136 million lump sum after taxes, the happy couple upgraded their hometown Camden Point, Missouri.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

First they paid for a brand new fire station.<\/p>\n

‘It’s a situation where if we had to do it ourselves, it would take 25 years,’ said Walt Stubbs, a friend and chief of the local volunteer fire department.<\/p>\n

Then they went to on to build a new baseball field a safer distance from the highway. The Hills gave over $50,000 to the town to buy land for a new sewage treatment plant so people could get off their individual septic tanks.\u00a0 They also gave away money to the local schools.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

The Hills did not forget about themselves.\u00a0 Mark quit his job and bought a new pickup truck \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 They still live a low key life with their three sons and one daughter.<\/p>\n

And that’s what’s good,
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