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Mega Million winners from Miller Place face challenges

Quick ReadThe Morrisons won a $165 million Mega Millions drawing in December, the largest jackpot in Long Island history.

Mary and Richard Morrison hug during a recent

Photo credit: Handout | Mary and Richard Morrison hug during a recent trip to Hawaii.

On the day Richard and Mary Morrison were revealed as Long Island's newest multimillionaires and a media horde descended on their Miller Place home, Mary and some of her children lowered a ladder out a back window.

Desperate to escape and in need of groceries, they ran through the woods behind the house to a car waiting a block away. "Just another day in the neighborhood," Richard recalled...

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