PLENTY of people make a statement with money.

For some, swimming in cash is fun — they spend it on

themselves, building mansions, driving Ferraris, buying

jewelry, living the high life.  

But there is no statement more powerful than giving 98 % of it away.

After winning $11.2 million in the lottery this past summer, Allen and Violet Large of Lower Truro could have lived large for the remainder of their years on Earth. You can bet your bottom dollar that 98 per cent of people would have done

just that — whether or not they were in their 70s like the

Larges.

But instead, after taking care of family, the retired couple have lavished the rest of their vast fortune on a laundry

list of charities. They are staying in their old, but

comfortable home and going about their normal lives, which

have been disrupted for months by Mrs. Large’s bout with

cancer.

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