ATLANTA – A Buford real estate agent is sold on winning the lottery. Susan Forsyth, 36, won a $50,000 top prize playing Fast 5's, a Georgia Lottery instant game.
Forsyth stopped at Chevron Food Mart, 2208 Scenic Highway North in Snellville, for a bottle of water when she purchased the ticket.
"I took it to my mother's house and scratched it there," she said. "We both looked at the ticket when I realized that I'd won."
As the mother of an 11-year-old daughter, Forsyth shared that she plays the lottery to help fund the lottery-funded Prekindergarten Program and HOPE Scholarship Program.
"My daughter attended Prekindergarten, and it was a great program," she shared. "We really liked it, and that's why I'm for the lottery."
Forsyth said she plans to invest her winnings.
Since its first year, the Georgia Lottery Corporation has returned over $9.5 billion to the state of Georgia for education. All Georgia Lottery profits go to pay for specific educational programs including Georgia's HOPE Scholarship Program and Georgia's Prekindergarten Program. More than 1 million students have received HOPE, and more than 850,000 4-year-olds have attended the statewide, voluntary prekindergarten program.
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