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An employee wouldn't tell the customer who it was, but said the anonymous person paid off $20,000 worth of purchases.

"As my eyes filled with tears I vowed to pay it forward as often as I could," the customer said.

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Austin Walters died from an overdose in 2021 after taking a Xanax pill laced with fentanyl, his father said. A new law named after Austin and aimed at preventing deaths from fentanyl has resulted in its first convictions in Georgia, prosecutors said. (Family photo)

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