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Winning isn't everything

Big lottery prize winners try to maintain perspective

By Kay Lazar
Globe Correspondent / December 29, 2005

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Marc L'Heureux doesn't subscribe to the ''money-changes-everything" philosophy. Nine months after winning $4 million on a lottery scratch ticket, the Newburyport father of three still climbs out of bed before dawn on weekdays to work at a company that cleans up biohazardous waste. L'Heureux, 39, still lives in the same house and is still married to the same woman. He ... (Full article: 1091 words)

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