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Retired Postman Gets Special Delivery: $1 Million
Eddie Beard won the big prize in a $20 scratch-off game.
A former postal worker from Buford received a late retirement gift, thanks to a scratch-off lottery ticket.
Eddie Beard, 71, who retired from the U.S. Postal Service two years ago, won $1 million in the Georgia Lottery’s 20th Anniversary Extravaganza instant game.
The ticket was purchased at Wee Willy’s, located at 1875 Peachtree Industrial Boulevard in Buford. He played the $20 scratch-off game inside the store.
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“I was shocked,” Beard said in a Georgia Lottery press release. “I wanted to go to sleep, but I was excited, of course.”
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