A split-second decision has forever changed the life of an Alamance County barber.

Sandra Lopez Alvarado was stopping for snacks after a July 4 get-together and decided to pick up a lottery ticket while she was there.

“I wasn’t going to buy a ticket at first,” said Lopez Alvarado. “I decided I was going to go for it When she got home and scratched her ticket, she was shocked to see that it was a winner.

“What? I won the lottery,” recalled Lopez Alvarado of her winning moment.

“It felt like ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory!’” She plans on using her winnings to open a barbershop of her own.

Fabulous Fortune launched this month with six $3 million prizes and 18 $100,000 prizes.

Ticket sales from scratch-off games make it possible for the lottery to raise more than $900 million per year for education.

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