Scott Edwards, de Julian e Perry Charles, de Lexington, fez um pacto há muito tempo para dividir qualquer grande loteria entre si, e essa promessa foi cumprida na terça -feira, quando Charles ganhou um jackpot de US $ 361.527.
"Eu acabei de sair do trabalho", lembrou Charles."Eu olhei para a quantia que você poderia ganhar e pensar: 'Cara, eu quero isso!'"
Charles escolheu esperar até chegar em casa para ver se havia vencido.Quando ele viu que tinha, chamou Edwards e manteve sua palavra.
“I was lost for words,” said Edwards. “I was kind of in shock too because to me that’s a lot of money to win. And I know that anything he says is just the truth. So, I knew when he told me that he wasn’t pulling my leg.”
Edwards knows his friend well – especially after 35 years. “He’s what you call a true friend,” he said. “Kinda like family.”
The two met while working at Winn-Dixie. “He was my boss!” Edwards laughed. Charles added, “We always talked about if we would hit something big, it didn’t matter if we went in together to get the ticket or if we got it separate, we were gonna share it with each other.”
Charles bought his winning $5 Double Win ticket from the Mast Food Mart on Old U.S. 64 East in Lexington. When he bought his ticket, the Fast Play jackpot stood at a record $723,054. A $5 ticket receives 50 percent of the jackpot amount. The odds of winning a Fast Play jackpot are 1 in 320,000.
They arrived at lottery headquarters Wednesday to collect their prize and, after required federal and state tax withholdings, received $128,361. Both said they were looking forward to paying some bills.
The Fast Play rolling jackpot grows with every ticket purchased. When a Fast Play jackpot is won, it starts over at $20,000. On Thursday afternoon, the jackpot was $398,188 and growing.
Ticket sales from scratch-off games make it possible for the lottery to raise more than $900 million per year for education. For details on how money raised by the lottery makes a difference in your county, visit www.nclottery.com and click on the “Impact” section.
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What a good friend. Congrats ????