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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: At ninety Michigan teachers lifelong dedication to her students earn

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Speaker 2: Guinness World Record Written by MICHAELA. Gordoni, read by Jolly Provost.

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Speaker 2: If anyone deserves career recognition, it's Miss Beverly Hannett Price

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Speaker 2: of Detroit, Michigan. The teacher sets the Guinness World Record

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Speaker 2: for the longest female language teaching career. Her community could

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Speaker 2: not be prouder. The teacher, who was nine years old,

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Speaker 2: was celebrated at an assembly this month, tended by staff

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Speaker 2: and former students. She taught for sixty seven years. This

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Speaker 2: historic recognition honors not only the links of missus Hannett

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Speaker 2: Price's career, but the depth of her influence on students,

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Speaker 2: whose achievements spanned the worlds of entertainment, business, and the arts.

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Speaker 2: Detroit Country Day School officials said two of her thousands

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Speaker 2: of students are Hollywood Walk of Fame starholders Courtney B.

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Speaker 2: Vance and Robin Williams. The two have shared many happy

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Speaker 2: moments together, including weddings, birthdays, and Courtney's Walk of Fame ceremony.

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Speaker 2: She had a lot of students, and she kept in

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Speaker 2: touch with me. She knew I didn't know things coming

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Speaker 2: from public school, inner city. She befriended me, Courtney said

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Speaker 2: of the private school teacher so much so when my

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Speaker 2: father died a suicide, she came and sat with my

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Speaker 2: mother in our house. And that's when I realize this

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Speaker 2: is more than just a student teacher relationship. This is

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Speaker 2: a life relationship. Courtney said. Life is short. You find

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Speaker 2: a few people to take you through the days. It's

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Speaker 2: a blessing. She's an absolute blessing to my family, and

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Speaker 2: I am to theirs, Courtney continued. Courtey said she's a

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Speaker 2: blessing to everyone she meets. Every day for her is

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Speaker 2: a wonderful day, and she reminds us all that life

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Speaker 2: is a gift. At the ceremony, saw many videos from

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Speaker 2: former students who shared how she had impacted their lives.

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Speaker 2: Another of her renowned students is former CEO of Microsoft,

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Speaker 2: Steve Blahmer. These former students frequently credit Miss Hannett Price's

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Speaker 2: rigorous standards, passion for language, and belief in her students

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Speaker 2: as formative influences on their personal and professional success, school

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Speaker 2: official said. Guinness World Records said Beverly continues to teach

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Speaker 2: with the same enthusiasm and energy that defined the beginning

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Speaker 2: of her career. This record honors her life on commitment

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Speaker 2: to her students, her school communities, and the teaching profession

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Speaker 2: as a whole. I have never left the building or

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Speaker 2: any school building that I taught in, ever wanting to

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Speaker 2: do anything else in my life but teach children, Beverly said.

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Speaker 2: I love this school, this opportunity for an education I love.

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Speaker 2: I'm not thinking of retiring. She's nacked a member of

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Speaker 2: the school. Not only in the classroom. She enjoys visiting

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Speaker 2: school events like games and dances. Most of all, she

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Speaker 2: loves being there for the kids. I listen to their stories,

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Speaker 2: I listen to their worries, I listen to their joys.

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Speaker 2: I love being at a game and congratulates them in

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Speaker 2: the classroom the next day, she said. Her granddaughter, Charlotte,

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Speaker 2: who attends the school, spoke at the ceremony. I'm glad

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Speaker 2: that she was awarded and they gave her an Assembly

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Speaker 2: for it. I think she deserved that recognition, Charlotte said,

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Speaker 2: all of my friends they always talk to me about her.

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Speaker 2: They always come up to me in hallways and say

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Speaker 2: how they said hi to my grandma and that I'm

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Speaker 2: friends with Charlotte. I think she's just such a celebrity

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Speaker 2: in school and outside of school, which is so special.

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Speaker 2: Miss Beverly has one thing she's always told her students

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Speaker 2: in life, you'd be the best version of yourself can

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Speaker 2: possibly be, because there will never be another u. Miss

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Speaker 2: Beverly will leave that school a wonderful legacy that will

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Speaker 2: be told as long as the school stands, and of

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Speaker 2: course her many students will always always remember her. An

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Speaker 2: Arizona restaurant gives a customer a special loss meo and

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Speaker 2: it was a huge blessing, written by had The Rigowan

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Speaker 2: Red but Juli Probe Then Arizona Restaurant gives a customer

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Speaker 2: a special loss meal and it was a huge blessing.

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Speaker 2: Some kindnesses arrived so quietly you almost miss how holy

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Speaker 2: they are until later when you realize they carried you

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Speaker 2: through the hardest goodbye. Roberta and Al have lived in

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Speaker 2: the valley for more than twenty years. Gilbert was home,

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Speaker 2: familiar streets, familiar rhythms, and one place Al love deeply,

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Speaker 2: Nanto's Mexican Cafe. It wasn't fancy, but it was a

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Speaker 2: place he returned to again and again, even as his

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Speaker 2: health slowly sipped away. Al's body has been through so

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Speaker 2: much diabetes, amputations, kidney failure, dialysis for more than a year,

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Speaker 2: pain that no longer eased. When he decided to stop treatment,

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Speaker 2: he did so with clarity, faith, and a heart set

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Speaker 2: on loving people well until the very end. He spent

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Speaker 2: his final days calling friends, saying goodbye, and sharing hope.

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Speaker 2: Still an evangelist, still pointing people to Jesus. One Saturday night,

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Speaker 2: Al looked at Roberta and said he wanted Mexican food.

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Speaker 2: She smiled gently, reminding him that church friends were bringing

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Speaker 2: a meal. But Al called Nando's anyway, not to complain,

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Speaker 2: just to let them know his door dash order wasn't

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Speaker 2: She asked if he'd been picking it up. Al told

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Speaker 2: the truth he was bedbound, he was dying. Something in

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Speaker 2: his voice did with her. Ava knew this wasn't just

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Speaker 2: another call. She gathered her team, they didn't hesitate. The

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Speaker 2: answer was yes before the question fully formed. The next day,

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Speaker 2: when Al slept through most of the afternoon, Nando's delivered

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Speaker 2: his favorite meal, no charge, tucked inside a handwritten note

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Speaker 2: full of gratitude, prayers, and love from the Nando family.

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Speaker 2: Roberta cried when she read it. She wasn't even sure

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Speaker 2: he'd wake up to eat, but he did, and when

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Speaker 2: he did, she fed him bite by bite. He opened

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Speaker 2: his mouth wild like a child. He loved every second

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Speaker 2: that meal, warm, familiar, generous was his blest. Roberta didn't

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Speaker 2: know it then, but now she does, and she knows

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Speaker 2: something else too, that goodness still shows up even at

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Speaker 2: the edge of grief. She plans to display that note

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Speaker 2: at Al's memorial, a reminder of testimony proved that sometimes

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Speaker 2: love looks like enchiladas, delivered at exactly the right moment,

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Speaker 2: and that kindness unexpected undes are freely given, can become

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Speaker 2: sacred ground. And let us not be weary and well

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Speaker 2: doing for a new season. We shall read if we

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Speaker 2: faint not Galatians six'.

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