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$1.5 Million Lottery Ticket Sold in Gwinnett
A grandmother of seven from Stone Mountain won the top prize in a new instant game.
A Stone Mountain grandmother can probably find some extra ways to spoil her seven grandkids after she became an instant millionaire with the Georgia Lottery.
Emma Stinnett, 63, of Stone Mountain, won $1.5 million in the Lottery’s new instant game Fast Bucks, the lottery announced Wednesday.
Stinnett recently stopped to get a bottle of water at the Neighborhood Mart on Rockbridge Road in Lilburn and walked out with a winning ticket.
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“The owner said that he had two tickets left, asking, ‘Do you want to try? I have a good feeling about these’,” Stinnett said in a Georgia Lottery news release. After realizing she won “I almost fell out. I couldn’t breathe.”
The mother of three plans to use the money to help her family and to visit her mother for 88th birthday celebration.
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(Photo courtesy Georgia Lottery)
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