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Speaker 1: Hello, friends, Welcome to Story Behind podcast. This is the

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Speaker 1: show for people who love hearing a good story and

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Speaker 1: who believe the world could use more positivity. We're the

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Speaker 1: team behind God Updates and God Too, and we hope

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Speaker 1: these weekly short stories will brighten your day.

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Speaker 2: A Beautiful Reunion at a California Hospital brings niek You

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Speaker 2: families and care teams back together. Written by Heather Brigaman,

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Speaker 2: red by Juley Provost. A Beautiful Reunion at a California

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Speaker 2: hospital brings niek You families and care teams back together

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Speaker 2: for a sweet moment. The room was once filled with

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Speaker 2: be being monitors, whispered prayers, and the kind of hope

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Speaker 2: that feels fragile in your hands. Now it's filled with laughter.

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Speaker 2: Tiny hands that once fought for every breath and are

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Speaker 2: now covered in face paint, and toddlers run where incubators

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Speaker 2: once stood. Parents who once held their babies through classic

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Speaker 2: walls now scoop them up freely, without wires or fear.

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Speaker 2: At the annual nik You Reunion at Marian Regional Medical Center,

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Speaker 2: families return not as patients, but as living, breathing miracles.

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Speaker 2: And if you look closely, you'll see it. The quiet

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Speaker 2: tears in the eyes of the nurses, the doctors lingering

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Speaker 2: a little longer, the caregivers who remember every ounce, every milestone,

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Speaker 2: every night. They stood in the gap between life and loss,

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Speaker 2: because without them, these families might not exist. Cross the room,

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Speaker 2: Doctor Rocky Greer smiled as he watched families gather, his

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Speaker 2: voice steady but full. This reunion is a testament to

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Speaker 2: the incredible strength and resilience of our neek you families,

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Speaker 2: he said. And yet the strength in that room belongs

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Speaker 2: to more than just the families. Caregivers carry a kind

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Speaker 2: of quiet courage most people never see. They are the

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Speaker 2: hands adjusting options levels at two AM, steady voices explaining

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Speaker 2: what feels impossible to understand. The ones who celebrate a

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Speaker 2: single ounce gained as if there were a grand victory.

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Speaker 2: They are, in so many ways, the hands and feet

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Speaker 2: of God in a hospital setting. Sue Anderson, the hospital CEO,

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Speaker 2: said it simply, but it landed deep seeing our niek

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Speaker 2: you graduate strive as health the happy kids is the

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Speaker 2: ultimate reward, and you can feel it in the event

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Speaker 2: of a beautiful, sacred exchange. Families who once walked in

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Speaker 2: carrying fear now walk back and carrying gratitude, because that's

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Speaker 2: the part people don't always talk about. The way caregivers

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Speaker 2: hold not just babies, but entire families together, the way

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Speaker 2: they remain steady when everything else feels like it's falling apart,

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Speaker 2: the way they love in the middle of the hardest,

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Speaker 2: most uncertain moments. And then one day the babies graduate,

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Speaker 2: they go home, they grow up, they come back, laughing, thriving, alive,

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Speaker 2: and the people who were once bought for them stand

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Speaker 2: in the background, hearts full, watching the miracle unfold, quietly, faithfully,

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Speaker 2: as if it was never about recognition, only about love.

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Speaker 2: Carry each other's burdens, and in this way you will

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Speaker 2: fulfill the law of Christ Galatians six' to. Two Dolly

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Speaker 2: parton gives update on her health and life after the

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Speaker 2: loss of her. Husband written By julie provosts read By July.

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Speaker 2: Provost Dolly parton is a national treasure and recently gave

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Speaker 2: her fans an update on how she is. Doing the

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Speaker 2: singer and entertainer have been dealing with some health. Issues

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Speaker 2: knowing she is doing better is quite the, relief and

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Speaker 2: we pray that she continues to. HEAL i have some

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Speaker 2: good news and a little bad, News dolly shares in

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Speaker 2: a video to her. Fans she goes on to say

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Speaker 2: that she is responding really well to meds and treatment

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Speaker 2: and is approving every. Day dolly eighty has been recovering

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Speaker 2: from kidney stones and immune and digestive issues that she

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Speaker 2: has been dealing with for the last three, years even

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Speaker 2: having to cancel Her Las vegas residency because of. It

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Speaker 2: the singer and entertainer went on to share her bad

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Speaker 2: news it will take her a while to be back

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Speaker 2: to performance, level which is. UNDERSTANDABLE i can't be, dizzy she,

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Speaker 2: said carrying Around banjo's guitars and such or five in,

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Speaker 2: chiels and you know That i'm going to be wearing.

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Speaker 2: Them Besides Dolly parton's health, issues she has been dealing

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Speaker 2: with the loss of her, Husband Karl Thomas, dein who

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Speaker 2: passed away In march of twenty twenty five after going

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Speaker 2: through a. Year, FIRST i mean the holidays at a

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Speaker 2: s especially our wedding anniversary in the day of his

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Speaker 2: Death march. Third you know that was hard for, me

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Speaker 2: BUT i will always love him AND i always miss,

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Speaker 2: him she. Shares dolly didn't let fans know how much

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Speaker 2: our love and concern had meant to her during this.

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Speaker 2: Time even through, Everything dolly is staying busy and is

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Speaker 2: up to a lot of fun and exciting. Things she's

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Speaker 2: still able to record, videos check in On dollywood In,

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Speaker 2: tennessee work to get her museum in a hotel ready

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Speaker 2: SO i have great, doctors And i'm doing really, well

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Speaker 2: and they assure me that EVERYTHING i have is. Treatable

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Speaker 2: So i'm going with, that she, says reassuring everyone she

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Speaker 2: is on the. Mend pray To, dahalia she continues to.

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Speaker 2: Heal we can't wait to see what the future holds for.

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