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Exclusive interview: Gretna Powerball winners 'not looking to go all opulent'
http://www.omaha.com/article/20131213/NEWS/131219345/1718
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David Harrig leaped up and down early Thursday, giddy that his Powerball ticket had just turned him from a hardworking, blue-collar guy to a millionaire many times over.
Then the reality of change and responsibility hit him.
“I prayed that I stay grounded,” Harrig said with tears in his eyes Friday afternoon. “I said, 'Lord, keep me grounded through all this.'?”
Harrig and his wife, Erica, described their reactions to their newly-won wealth while in attorney Darren Carlson's west Omaha office. They sat beneath a Michael Godard art print that Carlson acquired five years ago. It features dice burning a hole through a $100 bill.
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