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I have this disease to please, as Oprah would say, and I have the need to sort of help people

through their issues or help people with their problems.

And so, with the funeral home, I was really, really in my element.

I could just sort of help people through, talk them down, make them feel more ease after what they've just been through.

In 1987, Sandra Pankhurst was working at W.D. Rose and Sun Funeral Home in Melbourne, Australia,

where she says she pretty much did everything.

She prepared bodies for viewing, helped families plan all the details of the funeral,

and then oversaw the ceremony itself.

She says it was the perfect job for her because she is an afraid of death or dead bodies,

and she loved the work.

It was at the funeral home that she met the man she'd laid her marry.

The joke of it is, and as serious as it is, people used to say to me,

how did you make your husband? I got buried his wife.

You know, it was a joke, but it was sort of serious in the same token.

After they'd been dating for a while, Sandra sat him down and said she had something to tell him.

And he said to me, well, come on, tell me what's going on.

Tell me what's going on.

And I said, well, George, I said, look, the way you see me is not always the way I've been.

He said, well, what is it? I said, well, I don't quite know how to explain it to you.

I had to be surgically enhanced to become the person that you say me as being.

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