Our card this week is

is Jeanette Jevietzky, the Eight of Diamonds from Texas.

When 19-year-old Jeanette left the little rented house she shared with her husband Matt in Odessa, Texas on the evening of September 13th, 1982, he had every reason to believe that she'd be back in no time.

What he couldn't have known was that a silent countdown started the moment she walked out

the door and that every passing minute brought him one step closer to a life he never planned, one where he would be left

to raise their 11-day-old daughter all on his own.

I'm Ashley Flowers and this is the deck. Oh, So, When Matt and Jeanette moved to Odessa as newlyweds in the spring of 1981,

the plan was never for Jeanette to take a job at a gentleman's club.

They'd come from Colorado Springs for Matt's job prospects after a friend told him

that with the oil industry booming jobs were a dime a dozen and good well-paying jobs. Neither of them had

deep roots in Colorado Springs and they were both free spirits at heart so the

idea of picking up and moving from the mountains of Colorado to the desert town 600 miles away probably sounded like an adventure

The first of many in their lives together

So when that same friend offered to let them stay with him and his wife while they got on their feet in Odessa, they were sold.

They were young and healthy. It's not like they needed much.

Matt would be able to find work in no time

and they could settle into this exciting new chapter.

But you know the saying, right?

Life is what happens while you're busy making plans.

It was just as true in 1981 as it is today,

and Matt and Jeanette hadn't been in Odessa long

when the jobs started drying up. Here's Matt recalling all of this.

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