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Kristen starts this hour in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Hi, Kristen. How are you?

I'm good. How are you doing? Better than we deserve. What's up in your world?

Well, thank you for taking my call. Um, so my husband of 16 years, uh, passed away two months ago.

Oh, I'm so sorry.

Yes. Thank you.

Y'all are young. How old was he?

Um, I'm 39. Uh, we have five children and she was 46. Wow. What happened? Well, he had been battling cancer for

three years and then he had a really intensive radiation treatment to his liver. And then he had some neck issues so it was on lots of

pharmaceuticals so with with that and the disease and the treatment his his body just gave out so

um it happened very quick yeah thank you i appreciate that so um i never paid a bill in 16 years.

And so I'm left to steward our five children and all of our finances.

And I want to steward it well.

But I'm feeling zero confidence without him leading in this area.

Yeah, because he's been in, he was in charge of it for all of that time.

Yes, 100% in charge.

How old are your babies?

My oldest is 15 and my youngest is four.

So was there insurance that came about?

Yes, and not actually my primary question is, so he had a few life insurance policies,

and I was going to tell you what debts we had and to see if it's better.

I remember him telling me a long time ago to take the insurance money and pay off the mortgages.

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