EP131: “I Will Remember For The Both Of Us", A One Lawyer Town has it’s Ups and Downs and Why Are Bananas So Cheap?
Our American Stories
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4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Our American Stories, Laura Sangster shares her love story between her and her husband. All was well until her husband, Fred, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's; Bill Bright shares the story of how he helped a young girl who ended up in legal trouble; and the History Guy tells us why bananas are the cheapest fruit in the U.S.
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00:00 - “I Will Remember For The Both Of Us"
23:00 - A One Lawyer Town has it’s Ups and Downs
35:00 - Why Are Bananas So Cheap?
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| 0:00.0 | This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories. |
| 0:15.0 | And we tell stories about everything here on this show, including your stories. |
| 0:19.0 | Send them to our American Stories.com. |
| 0:22.1 | There's some of our favorites, and you know we really mean that. |
| 0:25.0 | Today, we have a listener's story from W.HO. in Des Moines, our great IHeart Station 1040. |
| 0:31.6 | Laura Sankster had a tough childhood and a very tough first marriage. |
| 0:36.1 | But then she met her husband Fred. |
| 0:38.3 | Here's Laura sharing her story. |
| 0:43.3 | I was married 40 years. |
| 0:46.3 | I found out after five years of marriage that he had sexual addictions, |
| 0:51.3 | and he was living, had another life life 38 years out of the 40 I |
| 0:56.1 | didn't want God to be mad at me so I didn't want divorce my kids everybody |
| 1:01.1 | wanted me I mean it was awful and I I just thought I was so scared my health |
| 1:08.3 | was going down I did lay counseling my counselor counselor, he said, no, the Lord does |
| 1:13.6 | not want you to be living like this anymore. I worked for a law firm. Everybody knew |
| 1:19.6 | who he was and what he was doing. After I decided to divorce, they were just so elated. |
| 1:28.3 | They put a party on and they said, |
| 1:30.3 | you need to find somebody that cares about you. |
| 1:33.3 | So five years later, they wanted me to do e-harmoning. |
| 1:38.3 | They were all on e-harmonie. |
| 1:40.3 | Some of them were engaged and it was like, you've got to do this. |
| 1:43.3 | Well, I filled out the application after a lot of pressuring. |
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