Alabama Winner

Sean of the South

Sean Dietrich

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5.0 • 546 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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You'll definitely smile after listening to this story! To subscribe to Sean's daily blog, https://seandietrich.com/subscribe/ For information on events or other Sean of the South news, visit https://seandietrich.com/ To sponsor an episode, email LauraBeth@SeanDietrich.com Sean Dietrich is a columnist, humorist, multi-instrumentalist, and stand-up storyteller known for his commentary on life in the American South. His work has appeared in Newsweek, Southern Living, Reader's Digest, Garden a...

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0:33.6	Alabama winner.
0:37.0	Her husband left her with two kids and a Honda.
0:40.9	She didn't even have a place to stay.
0:43.3	She moved in with her sister, and she worked thankless jobs, and she hardly ever smiled,
0:48.7	not because she wasn't happy, but because she was missing teeth.
0:52.8	I lost these two teeth in middle school,' she tells me.
0:55.9	"'My dad got in a car wreck,
0:57.4	"'and my brother and I were in his passenger seat.
1:00.6	"'Teeth are not.
1:01.9	"'The woman is tough. It's in her blood.
1:05.0	"'She raised three kids single-handed.
1:07.4	"'She fought off rowdy teenage boys
1:09.5	"'who wanted to date her daughter. "' She taught her sons how to be men.
1:14.6	The day after her youngest left for the military, she marched into a local bank. She had only one
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