MacKenzie was a homemaker in East Millinocket, Maine, near Bangor, raising her four children, Ella MacKenzie said. "I don't know that she was intentionally cutting," Crandell, who lives in Dade City, said in an interview Wednesday, "or maybe she didn't realize she did it." Mindy Crandell, 34, was in line at Publix with her two daughters that day, she said, when a woman stepped in front of her. In a statement, MacKenzie called the winnings a blessing, and recalled how a person in line at Publix allowed her to go ahead to buy her single Quick Pick ticket. Now she's walking away with a lump sum payment of more than $370 million, before taxes. "I assumed she was just an elderly lady scraping to get by," he said of MacKenzie. Neighbor Bruce Featherston described the area as working class - "where people are really struggling." 'Gloria you want some help?' She'd say, 'No, no, no, it's okay. He said she was strong: "Sometimes she'd come from the store to buy something and I'd see her over there taking the bags. "She liked to talk, but not with everybody," said Jorge Trapero, who lives in the apartment attached to MacKenzie's, across from a cow pasture. Neighbors in Zephyrhills said that guarded profile fits with what they know of MacKenzie. She said nothing to the pack of reporters who swarmed her. MacKenzie, her face hidden behind large black sunglasses, arrived with her son Scott, a family friend and her financial and legal advisers.
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