Hi, my name is Lloyd Lockridge, and I'm the host of a new podcast from Odyssey called Family Lour.

In this podcast, I'm going to have people on to tell unusual and sometimes far-fetched stories about their families.

I've heard my whole life that she invented the margarita.

And then we're going to investigate those stories and find out how much of it is true.

He gets a patent one month before the Wright brothers.

Oh, my God.

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Sandy Alfred almost never got sick, which is why that first semester of grad school was weird.

Out of nowhere, she broke out in a horrible rash.

There was a purple-red, oval-shaped spot right over my thyroid on my neck,

and it slowly went up my neck and into my face and all my hands.

Sandy's rash went away on its own. But later that same semester, another medical issue came up.

And then the second thing that I saw was breathing difficulties and I was diagnosed with asthma.

Well, I don't smoke. I've never

smoked. I don't live with anybody that smokes. So it was unusual to be about 34 years old and

being diagnosed with asthma. By the end of the semester, her symptoms were gone. Whatever had been

happening to her seemed to have passed on its own. She went on with her life and didn't think about it again.

At least not for another two decades.

I was literally in my pajamas headed to bed,

and I had my phone in my left hand,

and I was getting ready to shut the light out in the hallway,

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