Preston Fuqua bought his winning $10,000 lottery ticket from a Chevron in Gainesville, Georgia.

One lucky player bought a Mega Millions ticket worth $983 million from a Publix in Newnan, Georgia.

Happy birthday from the Georgia Lottery!

It certainly was a memorable occasion for Preston Fuqua of Gainesville, Georgia. The married father of three bought a lottery scratch-off ticket on his wife's Nov. 14 birthday — the same night Mega Millions had ballooned to a whopping $980 million jackpot (final ticket sales pushed the grand prize to $983 million ).

While one lucky player from Georgia did win the record-setting $983 million Mega Millions grand prize that night, Fuqua scored some cool cash, too: His Georgia Millionaire scratch-off ticket was worth $10,000, according to the state's

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