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My name is Joshua, I am your host and today I'm thrilled to bring you a special story

from a friend of mine who we are sitting face to face. Her name is Anne and we're sitting here in her home.

And I've known Anne's story for a

while it's been inspirational to me and I thought how better to bring you something

really useful as far as a little bit of her story and how better to bring what better way to bring you a story of

unusual financial circumstances than the story of an older lady a widow

with 12 children whose husband died when, how old was your youngest at that time, Anne?

10 months.

So you had at that time, you and he had 12 children and your youngest was 10 months, your oldest was in her early 20s and he had no life

insurance is that right that's correct and I thought this would just be a a

great story and a very inspirational and encouraging story that I really wanted to share with my audience.

So now that I've given just a little bit of an introduction, I would love to back up a little bit.

Tell me the story of you and your husband, how you met, how you married, and how you came to build a life together.

Yeah, that's kind of a long story. Let's see what I can do.

I'll make it short. There was 15 years difference in our ages and when I was going to

the university. Now how do I do this?

Let's see.

I was taking a chemistry class that was very difficult for me because I wasn't good at math and my

chemistry partner was not any better than I was and he told me that I should get

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