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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: Siblings are heroes after saving their bus driver and keeping

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Speaker 2: the other kids calm. Written by MICHAELA. Gordoni, read by

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Speaker 2: Julie Provost, Two Ohio's siblings are heroes after they noticed

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Speaker 2: their school bus driver had trouble breathing. When eight year

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Speaker 2: old Katrina noticed something was wrong, she pulled the parking

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Speaker 2: brake while her big brother Charlie handled calms on the

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Speaker 2: two way radio. Thanks to the quick actions, the bus

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Speaker 2: driver is okay. I ran up there and said what

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Speaker 2: is wrong, and she pointed at her throat, and then

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Speaker 2: I ran back there and got the older kids. Katrina

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Speaker 2: said she had her radio in the air, and so

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Speaker 2: that's when I realized something was going on. Charlie recalled.

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Speaker 2: Katrina knew they were going down a hill, so she

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Speaker 2: pulled the parking brake. When I realized that something was

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Speaker 2: going on, I went up there and grabbed the radio

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Speaker 2: and then called the school because I knew that that

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Speaker 2: was the quickest way to get help, Charlie said. Charlie

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Speaker 2: grabbed the radio, told the receiver their bust number, and

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Speaker 2: alerted them that the driver wasn't breathing. He says he

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Speaker 2: knows how to call because he watched a few dukes

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Speaker 2: of hazard movies. He'd call him and do what needs

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Speaker 2: to be done at the time, Charlie said in eighth

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Speaker 2: grader CALLI also helped by calling nine one one and

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Speaker 2: instructing students to stay in the back of the bus.

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Speaker 2: Charlie was a little shaky, but he tried to keep

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Speaker 2: all of the children calm. My brother in the inside

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Speaker 2: when something's going wrong, he's scared, but on the outside

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Speaker 2: he's like calm and concentrated, Katrina said, nudging her brother

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Speaker 2: said that he'd smile. The siblings' mom felt an overwhelming

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Speaker 2: feeling of joy when she learned what her kids did.

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Speaker 2: I was joyful that my kids were knowledgeable enough and

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Speaker 2: new enough to know what to do to actually help somebody,

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Speaker 2: legitimately save somebody's life, their mom said. Katrina said her

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Speaker 2: bus driver is really cool, and she's proud and happy

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Speaker 2: with myself and happy that we got the driver all

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Speaker 2: better now. I'm glad that she's home now and she's saved.

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Speaker 2: Charlie said the actions of these students were truly outstanding.

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Speaker 2: Their school superintendent said there remain calm, communicated, clearly and

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Speaker 2: helpful in another in a situation that could have been

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Speaker 2: much worse. Their families should be increasingly proud. Thank got

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Speaker 2: that Katrina and the kids were aware of their surroundings

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Speaker 2: and that the driver is okay. Fighting Love Again at

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Speaker 2: seventy eight, This loving couple met at church and married

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Speaker 2: four months later. Written by Heather Wrickleman, read by Dully Provost.

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Speaker 2: Fighting Love Again at seventy eight, This loving couple met

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Speaker 2: at church and married four months later. When we imagine

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Speaker 2: ourselves later in life, we assume the love of our

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Speaker 2: lives will be by our side, but sometimes it's not

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Speaker 2: the case. Cancer, heart attacks, and so many other things

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Speaker 2: leave us spouseless. Yet we never know what God has

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Speaker 2: in store for us. I read the sweetest story earlier

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Speaker 2: today and I haven't been able to stop thinking about

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Speaker 2: it since. The kind of story you want to tell

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Speaker 2: someone you the kind that makes you pause and smile

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Speaker 2: when you're folding laundry or waiting in the car line

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Speaker 2: at school. It's about love, faumilate, hope restored quietly, and

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Speaker 2: God weaving something beautiful when no one was expecting it.

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Speaker 2: It's about a man and a woman who met at

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Speaker 2: church at seventy eight, Mary just four months later, who

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Speaker 2: says love has an expiration date. Their names are John

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Speaker 2: and Mary, and their story feels like a gentle reminder

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Speaker 2: from God that He's never finished writing love stories. Not

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Speaker 2: at twenty eight, not at forty eight, and not even

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Speaker 2: at seventy eight. John has been widowed for several years.

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Speaker 2: Mary has walked through her own season of lost and

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Speaker 2: quiet loneliness. They both came to church faithfully, not looking

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Speaker 2: with open hearts and a willingness to trust God with

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Speaker 2: whatever was next. They notice each other slowly, a conversation here,

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Speaker 2: a shared left there, a prayer request, a couple copy

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Speaker 2: after service. It doesn't sound like what you read in

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Speaker 2: a romance novel. There was nothing flashy, wild or rushed,

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Speaker 2: just two hearts recognizing something familiar and kind in the other.

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Speaker 2: Mary shared later that she wasn't looking for love, she

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Speaker 2: was simply looking to be faithful. With the life God

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Speaker 2: had given her, and John said something similar that he

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Speaker 2: never imagined God still had a gift waiting for him

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Speaker 2: at this stage of life, and yet here it was.

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Speaker 2: Four months later, they stood before the church family and

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Speaker 2: promised their remaining years to one another, not because they

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Speaker 2: were afraid to be alone, but because they felt God

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Speaker 2: nudging them together. There's something deeply comforting about that, isn't there?

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Speaker 2: That God doesn't stop orchestrating, He doesn't stop arranging, that

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Speaker 2: he doesn't stop caring about companionship, joy, tenderness, and love

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Speaker 2: even when the world quietly assumes those chapters are finished.

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Speaker 2: Their story reminds us that God is not bound by

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Speaker 2: timelines we invent. He's limited by age, by loss, by

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Speaker 2: what didn't happen before, or how late we think it is.

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Speaker 2: He is the God who brings beauty after ashes, connection

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Speaker 2: after loneliness, and joy after long stretches of quiet. So

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Speaker 2: if you're reading this and thinking it feels too late

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Speaker 2: for me, or that chapter has already passed, or God

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Speaker 2: must be finished with that part of my story, please

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Speaker 2: let John and Mary gently into stickret with you. Love

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Speaker 2: is not only for the young, Hope is not only

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Speaker 2: for the beginning. New things are not reserved for certain

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Speaker 2: decades of life. God is still writing, still arranging, still surprising,

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Speaker 2: and sometimes beautifully unexpectedly. He writes a love story at

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Speaker 2: seventy eight appeals just as tender and sacred as the

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Speaker 2: first one ever written Psalm thirty seven. Ford to light

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Speaker 2: yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the

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Speaker 2: desires of your heart.

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