Hey, everybody, welcome to from the kitchen table. I'm Sean Duffy along with my co-host,

my partner in life and my wife, Rachel Campos Duffy.

It's so great to be back at the kitchen table. We're in Wisconsin, Sean, and we come up here

every month, and we'll usually try and make sure we have time for at the end of the month

because it's your mom's birthday, but sadly, a few weeks ago, your mom passed away.

She did. So my mom was almost, she would have been 90 today.

We're doing this on Thursday, dropping on Friday. But she's had a tough goal of it. My mom has.

She fell and broke her femur in January. This had a whole series of events that took place.

And in the end, it was really hard.

But you and I've talked about this a lot.

We talk about big families a lot and why big families are important.

And I'm just going to tell you, why do I care to talk about this in the podcast?

Because there's a theme that we discuss a lot that I want to bring up.

So she's been married to my dad for 69 years.

Carol Duffy?

Yep.

And she had 11 kits.

And what was fascinating is in essence the six months that she was,

she broke her femur, was in in the hospital she was able to come

home for a little while but then was back in the hospital my dad was with her every moment once

once in a while he would leave her side to go get the mail to shower once in a while to shower that's right

but he was there day in day night night, stayed in the hospital with her.

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