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favorites. And now we bring you another story from Steve Trice, and he's the founder of a leading

electronics company called Jasko Products, who tells us the story

of his marriage and in light of an upbringing of many divorces and alcoholism.

Here's Steve.

When Nianne and I talked about getting married when we were 23, 24 years old.

I told her at one point, I said, you don't want to marry me.

I don't think you like it.

And she said, what do you mean?

I want to marry you.

And I said, well well I get up and go

to work at 7 o'clock in the morning and I get home at 11 o'clock at night because I

had been trained up by my daddy and I learned how to be I wasn't an alcoholic but I

was a workaholic, you know.

It was getting my value out of my job.

And she said, I thought very naively at the time, Steve, that's enough for me.

That's okay. That'll be great.

I said, oh, okay. So we went ahead and got married, and a year

later, we had our first child. It wasn't that literal. I wasn't 11 o'clock every night. And then

we had our second child pretty quick after that. At that point, I was off to Target stores in Minneapolis.

I'd leave Minneapolis.

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