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Now here's Jen.

Hey everyone, it's Jen Hatmaker here in The For the Love Podcast.

Listen, I am super, super excited and honored to have some really special guests on today for our series on For the Love of Girlfriends.

So, I got to thinking all of our different series in the podcast are interesting.

We're going to have on experts and authors and sometimes really good friends of mine and people who are really sort of niche in their area.

But my favorite thing about our tribe has always been the tribe itself, that among us, there are so many amazing stories, so many amazing people, so many amazing friendships and these wonderful encounters with God and with people that that should just have a wider hearing.

And so, I decided for every series that we do on the podcast, we're going to crowdsource one episode.

So in other words, I went to Facebook and said, guys, we'll do a series on Girlfriends. Tell me your stories.

Who's got an amazing girlfriend? Who has something we should hear? Tell us who you know and what you have seen and the response was absolutely over the top.

In fact, we had so many amazing nominations, we couldn't pick just one. So on today's episode, we actually have two different sets of friends because we couldn't choose.

So you're going to hear two amazing stories today. And just real quick, I want to thank you. I'm tribe for your incredible responses.

I'm just, I'm so blessed by this community and I'm reminded again why good friendships are so important.

They absolutely carry us. They give us strength when we need the most. They bring us joy.

And sometimes as in the story that you're just about to hear from our guests today, they carry a legacy that lasts even after we have left this world.

So without further ado, our first set of friends today that we're welcoming to the podcast is Vivian Foster and Nancy Klein.

And they have a story that positively exemplifies true and lasting friendship. They're both from the Kansas City area.

And you guys are just not going to believe their incredible story. It's amazing.

Vivian was actually the one who nominated her friend Nancy. And I'm going to let them tell you all about this wonderful friendship journey they've been on together and where it all begins.

So first off Vivian and Nancy, thank you so, so much for responding to our call for amazing friendship stories and for being on the show today.

They're all to do it. Yeah, it's my pleasure and my privilege to be here with you and Vivian.

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