WORCESTER, Mass., Nov. 5 (UPI) -- A retired Massachusetts firefighter will receive $50,000 annually for 20 years after getting a winning ticket in the state lottery for a second time in a month.

Leo Dominie of Ware said he felt good when a $20 lottery ticket he purchased paid $1,000, but his big surprise in October was a second winning ticket for $1 million, the Worcester Telegram & Gazette reported Wednesday.


Dominie, 72, says he purchased the lottery ticket at a convenience store on a Friday night and started scratching it off as soon as he got back in the car where his wife was waiting.

"She said my face changed, and she could tell," he said.

His wife started weeping when she saw how much the ticket was worth, Dominie said.

"My hands were literally shaking," he said. "My wife wanted to dig a hole under our mobile home to hide it."