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Cobb store sells Ga. lotto ticket worth $1K per week for life

A winning lottery ticket was sold at a gas station in Powder Springs.

Credit: Photo: WSB-TV

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A winning lottery ticket was sold at a gas station in Powder Springs.
By Ben Brasch
March 23, 2018

Someone has an extra $1,000 for every week of their life thanks to a gas station in Cobb County.

A winning Cash4Life lottery ticket was sold from the Sunoco at 4551 Brownsville Road in Powder Springs, the state lottery agency announced Friday.

READ | After 2 months, mystery winners claim $83M lotto ticket sold in Cobb

Get the latest | See the Georgia Lottery results here.

The winning numbers — 3-26-30-51-53, with a Cash Ball of 4 — were drawn Monday.

The winner, who did not get the Cash Ball number correct, claimed their prize on Wednesday, according to a lotto spokeswoman.

You should still feel a bit bad for the anonymous winner: Cash4Life offers the chance to win a prize of $1,000 a day for life or the $1,000 a week for life.

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