In 1979, he adopted nine black Girls,
The Man Who Kept His Promise: Richard Miller and the “Miller Nine” In 1979, Richard Miller, a 34-year-old widower, lived in silence after losing his wife, Anne, to illness. Before she died, she’d made him promise: “Don’t let love die with me. Give it somewhere to go.” That promise led him, one rainy night, to St. Mary’s Orphanage,…