In essence, the former store assistant believes that although most people consider winning the lottery immediately after graduating from high school to be a dream come true, it wasn’t as simple as it seemed.
“I didn’t want that much money,” she said. For the first time in a long time, I felt content and settled when I was in foster care.
“You have no idea what is ahead of you at sixteen because, thank God, I did not anticipate any of it. I asked the Co-op whether I might return to my previous position.
In order to save future teenagers from having to go through what she had, Callie was so adamant about this that she urged politicians to increase the National Lottery’s age restriction to 18 or older.
The mother now only hopes that none of her children would ever try their luck on the minimum age, which was introduced in 2021.
