Millionaire in One Minute 

When Suchy Klein of Flatbush stopped at a Chinese-owned grocery for a bottle of water, he wasn’t even planning on buying a lottery ticket. Although he’d won $5 scratch-offs before, he suddenly became the newest member of an exclusive club of overnight millionaires. But what now? Take the lifetime payout or grab the lump sum and hope you don’t mess it up?

Winning, he hopes, isn’t going to mean losing himself

“I Think We Won $10,000 a Week for Life.”

When the deluge hit his phone, he was sitting in Punta Cana. Suchy “Marc” Klein had just done what millions fantasize about while standing in line at 7-Eleven and yet almost no one ever actually pulls off. He scratched a lottery ticket and discovered he’d just become the newest member of a very small club with a very large payout: the winner of New York State’s “$10,000 a Week for Life” game.

But the way he tells it, his first reaction was one of anxiety more than ecstasy.

“Honestly, my first reaction was, I hope nobody finds out,” he says. “When they took my picture for the New York State Lottery, I was hoping they wouldn’t have to make it public. That they’d just put out some statement without my face on it.”

He’s 45, works multiple jobs, teaches in a special-needs boys’ school and helps run a community wedding hall in Flatbush. On the day his life changed, he was leaving one of those jobs and just wanted a drink.