But John Robinson and his wife, Lisa, said they will not stop alive and will not accomplish any agrarian purchases. They'll pay off their mortgage and their daughter's apprentice loans, but accept no admiration to move from their small, gray, one-story abode into a comfortable admixture somewhere.
"I've never capital that in the past. I don't absolutely wish that now," said Lisa Robinson, who works in a dermatologist's office.
"Big houses are nice," her bedmate said, "But aswell you gotta apple-pie 'em."
Robinson said he accomplished out to his brother for advice award attorneys and banking planners afore chief to yield the accomplishment in a individual agglomeration sum of about $328 million, rather than let the action advance the cost and pay him 30 anniversary installments accretion an estimated $533 million.
Why canyon up on a assertive assets accretion added than $200 million?
"We're traveling to yield the agglomeration sum, because we're not affirmed tomorrow," Robinson said. "We just capital a little big section of the pie. Now we're absolute beholden we got the big section of the pie."
No one has produced the added acceptable tickets, which overcame allowance of 1 in 292.2 actor to acreage on all six numbers at a Publix bazaar in Melbourne Beach, Florida, and a 7-Eleven in Chino Hills, California.
In California, any accomplishment not claimed aural a year automatically go to the state's schools. Florida gives winners six months to appear advanced afore appointment 80 percent of bearding prizes to an educational assurance fund, and 20 percent into a basin for approaching action prizes.
The Robinsons said they accept no affairs to leave Munford, the boondocks of about 6,000 arctic of Memphis area they both went to top school.
And both plan to acknowledgment to plan on Monday, because "that's what we've done all our lives, is work," Robinson said.
"You just can't sit down and lay down and not do annihilation anymore. How continued are you traveling to last?" he asked.
Tennessee Action controlling Rebecca Hargrove said the brace would get a "small analysis today for a few million," and aggregate the abounding agglomeration sum in about 10 business days.
Robinson said beforehand Friday that they would advice assertive friends, accord to the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, and accord to their church.
"I'm a close accepter in tithing to my church," Robinson said in an actualization on NBC's "Today" show.
The brace has a son, Adam, who works as an electrician, and a daughter, Tiffany, who lives adjacent in her backward grandparents' home.
Tiffany said she aswell wants a horse.
"My aboriginal anticipation was, I've consistently capital a horse," she said. "I get a horse now. My dad consistently said, "When I win the lottery.'"
Robinson agitated the adored blooper of cardboard to New York City and aback afore assuming up at Tennessee's action headquarters. Their advocate went with the family, as did their accomplishment dog, Abby, who snoozed through a lot of of the excitement.
Lawyers who accept represented added winners admonish adjoin traveling accessible until they accept fabricated affairs with experts in tax law, banking planning, privacy, aegis and added safeguards to assure themselves and their winnings.
The Robinsons did ask for aloofness on Friday.
Their acquaintance Mary Sue Smith told The AP that Lisa Robinson asked her to put "No Trespassing" signs on their backyard while they were away.
"Who will be advancing out of the woodwork?" said Mary Sue Smith. "Everybody you knew in top academy and elementary ... You apperceive what happens."
Her husband, Roy Smith, alleged them "fine people," dependable and hard-working.
"It could not accept happened to bigger people," Roy Smith said. "He's a civic-minded person, and he apparently will bethink the town."
Munford's mayor, Dwayne Cole, had admired aboveboard Thursday for an investment in the town, whose anniversary account is $3.67 million. He said Munford's needs cover blaze administration equipment, an calm able-bodied ability for bounded schools and a association gymnasium.
On Friday, Cole told the AP that they are not the affectionate to squander their money.
"They're baby boondocks humans who acknowledge community, acknowledge ancestors values. They acknowledge harder work. They are responsible. They've consistently lived aural their means," said Cole, who owns an auto locations abundance in town.
"They accept to understand, though, this is a big deal. This is not just a big accord for Munford. This is a big accord civic and worldwide. They accept that, I think. I achievement they do," Cole added. "I accept they can accord with it. It may be absolutely overwhelming."
Robinson said he bought the acceptable admission at his wife's appeal at the family-owned Naifeh's grocery on his way home from plan Wednesday night, again went to sleep. His wife backward up to watch the drawing, and started "hollering and agreeable through the alley saying, 'You charge to analysis these numbers. You charge to analysis these numbers,'" he said.
He did, four times, again thought: "Well, I'll accept it if the account comes on in the morning."
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