Wisconsin man hits the lottery, buys billboards
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In Wisconsin, Jack Maier buys billboard space to keep what happened to his wife from happening to other people, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.
"What burns me up is that she had a mammogram done every year and it looked all right. I don't know what happened," he tells columnist Jack Stingl. "What a beautiful woman she was."
Breast cancer claimed her five years ago.
So he buys the billboards at about $2,000 apiece with varying subjects.
He says he'll keep doing it until he runs out of money.
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