ATLANTA – An Atlanta Police Department officer is shattering superstitions of bad luck. On the same day that she broke a mirror, Andrea Evans of Conyers matched the number 13 playing a Georgia Lottery instant game and won $1 million.
Evans purchased her Georgia Lottery's Cash Explosion top prize ticket at Honey Creek Amoco, located at 3500 Georgia Highway 20 S. in Conyers. She scratched the lucky ticket in her driveway and began screaming.
"I was so happy," she exclaimed. "I called my husband, but he didn't believe it."
Evans, 35, and her husband, Eric, have a total of five children. The family celebrated the lottery win with a special dinner.
"Winning is a good feeling," she said. "We consider ourselves lucky."
Since its first year, the Georgia Lottery Corporation has returned over $9.7 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 860,000 4-year-olds have attended the statewide, voluntary prekindergarten program.
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