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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: Kindergartener celebrates one hundredth day of school with one hundred

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Speaker 2: year old great Grandpa. Written by ha the Rigoman, read

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Speaker 2: by Dully Provost. A kindergartener celebrates the one hundred day

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Speaker 2: of school with one hundred year old great grandpa and

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Speaker 2: the kids are all better for it. The classroom at

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Speaker 2: Saint Thomas Moore School in Decanter, Georgia, was buzzing with

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Speaker 2: excitement as kindergarteners celebrated one hundredth day of school, a

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Speaker 2: milestone marking in the halfway point of the year. Most

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Speaker 2: children arrived carrying collections of one hundred small objects, carefully

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Speaker 2: counted and proudly displayed. But one student brought something no

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Speaker 2: one else could, kJ Skamanski. He brought her one hundred

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Speaker 2: year old great grandfather, and they even dress alike. When

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Speaker 2: Sonny Ragan walked into the classroom, time itself seemed to

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Speaker 2: follow him. At one hundred years old. He wasn't just

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Speaker 2: a guest, He was living history, standing in the middle

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Speaker 2: of a room full of five and six year olds

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Speaker 2: dressed up as sentarians for the occasion. What began as

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Speaker 2: a simple show and tell quickly became something much more meaningful.

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Speaker 2: I was born October eighth, nineteen twenty five in Grant Park.

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Speaker 2: Well not in the park, Sony joked, instantly winning over

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Speaker 2: the room. For the students, it was a rare chance

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Speaker 2: to ask questions that sketched far beyond math lessons and

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Speaker 2: reading circles. They wanted to know what life was like

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Speaker 2: back then. Did he have a car? Were their grocery stores?

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Speaker 2: What was different? Other than three years serving in the

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Speaker 2: US Navy, Sonny had lived in Atlanta his entire life, witnessing

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Speaker 2: a century of change unfold around him. From quiet streets

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Speaker 2: to bustling highways, from handwritten letters to smartphones. His life

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Speaker 2: had spanned generations that most of his great granddaughter's classmates

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Speaker 2: can't yet imagine. Cage's mother, Katie, watched as the children

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Speaker 2: listen close, soaking in stories that felt almost unreal. For Sonny,

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Speaker 2: the moment was simple and sweet, sharing memories with a

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Speaker 2: room full of curious hearts, and one very special great

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Speaker 2: granddaughter beaming beside him. When asked was keeping him going

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Speaker 2: for one hundred years, he didn't hesitate. He pointed to

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Speaker 2: faith and family. I'm not good with that many words,

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Speaker 2: but she's the best. I tell you. I love her

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Speaker 2: with all my heart, he said, speaking of his great granddaughter.

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Speaker 2: In that classroom, surrounded by paper projects and tiny desks,

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Speaker 2: generations met in the most ordinary and extraordinary way. A

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Speaker 2: molestone lesson turned into a reminder that love, faith, and

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Speaker 2: family are what truly endure. As Sunny looks ahead, he

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Speaker 2: hopes to live two one hundred and five, just to

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Speaker 2: watch kJ keep growing and for one unforgettable school day,

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Speaker 2: a century of life became the best lesson these students

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Speaker 2: were ever going to learn. One generation commenced your work

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Speaker 2: to another. They tell of your mighty acts. Psalm one

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Speaker 2: hundred and forty five. Four Welcoming quintuplets turned this family

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Speaker 2: of four into a family of nine. I think it's

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Speaker 2: a miracle. Written by mechanic GORDONI read by Julie Propost.

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Speaker 2: In December, a New York hospital delivered quintuplets born to

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Speaker 2: a family of four, making them a family of nine

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Speaker 2: overnight fali. Five babies were born premature but healthy. The

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Speaker 2: family calls it a miracle. Jessica Lobrin was the second

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Speaker 2: woman in Buffalo, New York, to ever have quintuplets. Do

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Speaker 2: you consider it a miracle, the newsperson asked Jessica and

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Speaker 2: her husband John. I think so, John said, nodding. Jessica added,

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Speaker 2: I think it was meant to be. It's extremely rare,

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Speaker 2: said Valerie Elberson, associate medical director of the NIKU at

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Speaker 2: Galasso Children's Hospital. The numbers I have seen are one

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Speaker 2: in fifteen in a year in all of the world,

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Speaker 2: and in Buffalo, We've only had it happen one other time.

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Speaker 2: First finding out, I had a full blown planic attack,

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Speaker 2: and I think John also went into state of shop too,

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Speaker 2: Jessica said. But when I was panicking, saying what are

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Speaker 2: we going to do? He was like, we'll figure it out.

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Speaker 2: Jessica and John knew the babies would be born prematurely,

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Speaker 2: but didn't know when, but the hospital was prepared. When

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Speaker 2: Jessica's water broke just after midnight on December eighteenth, approximately

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Speaker 2: thirty hospital staff members helped welcome the baby's arrival. Some

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Speaker 2: of them were on call, coming from their homes to help.

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Speaker 2: The specialties included O B, the NIKU, nursing pharmacy, and

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Speaker 2: respiratory therapy. It was sort of like a well oiled machine,

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Speaker 2: said doctor Ka Raul. They named the babies Connor, Mason, Laila, Holly,

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Speaker 2: and Stefan. Even though Jessica was always at risk of

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Speaker 2: early delivery, the doctors advised her to keep life normal,

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Speaker 2: still going out and spending time with my daughters, dropping

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Speaker 2: my oldest daughter at school, picking her up, she said,

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Speaker 2: as the holidays rolled around, making sure the holidays stayed

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Speaker 2: the same. I was reeled right in right before two,

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Speaker 2: and Mason was out at two o three and Connor,

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Speaker 2: it was so incredibly fast. It went, for the most part,

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Speaker 2: as smoothly as I can remember. It was meant to be.

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Speaker 2: That's what we said, if, like well, someone wanted us

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Speaker 2: to have buy babies, said Jessica, who already has two

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Speaker 2: older daughters. This was not IVS did not implant five embryos.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't the goal to try for multiples. When it happened,

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Speaker 2: it was like fate. We were meant to be parents

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Speaker 2: to quintuplets. I guess Jessica works as a nine one

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Speaker 2: one dispatcher. One of her coworkers created a GoFundMe to

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Speaker 2: raise thirteen thousand dollars for the family while Jessica was pregnant.

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Speaker 2: I think what amazes me personally the most is the

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Speaker 2: fact that she is still working as an overburdened nine

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Speaker 2: one one dispatch emergency medical services. The family's go Fundme

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Speaker 2: has already raised over eleven thousand dollars. It's amazing that

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Speaker 2: this family got quintuplets without IVF and that they are

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Speaker 2: here and thriving. Any pregnancy with multiple babies is high risk,

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Speaker 2: and sadly, sometimes not all the babies make it, so

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Speaker 2: this certainly is a miracle and the parents are very grateful.

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