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ICYMI: $1.5 Million Lottery Ticket Sold in Gwinnett
In case you missed it, A grandmother of seven won the top prize in a new instant game, the Georgia Lottery reported this week.
A local 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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