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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: From college romance to friendship and back again. After one

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Speaker 2: life changing moment written by MICHAELA. Goordoni, read by Dully Provost,

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Speaker 2: when a couple reunited after tragedy, their love blossomed into

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Speaker 2: a beautiful story. The pair, Sloane and Matt Bowen, had

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Speaker 2: gone out a couple times, but didn't go study until

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Speaker 2: Matt became quadriprilegic. Now they have a beautiful life together.

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Speaker 2: The two were college aged when they first met and

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Speaker 2: had gone on a few dates, but they initially decided

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Speaker 2: to stay friends. We say it's a blessing in the sky,

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Speaker 2: says Sloane. I liked him at the time, but I

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Speaker 2: was respecting that he wanted to just be friends. When

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Speaker 2: Matt went on spring breaking California, he got into a

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Speaker 2: rough body surfing incident that broke his neck. He would

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Speaker 2: eventually find out he lost partial sensation and voluntary movement

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Speaker 2: in his torso and limbs. He was eventually life lighted

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Speaker 2: from Cali back to Utah, where he would recover. Then

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Speaker 2: Sloane went to visit him in the hospital. I was

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Speaker 2: just prepared to see him for three to five minutes,

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Speaker 2: she remembered. I was just going to say hi, I'm

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Speaker 2: here for you. So sorry this happened. I had no expectations.

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Speaker 2: Matt's mom greeted her and told Sloane she needed to

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Speaker 2: leave to take care of Matt's younger sister. Sloane ended

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Speaker 2: up staying with Matt for eight hours that day. Matt

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Speaker 2: had a tracheat at me at the time, so he

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Speaker 2: couldn't speak, but Sloane could tell what he was trying

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Speaker 2: to say when he moved his lips. They would text

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Speaker 2: each other and Matt would invite her to the hospital

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Speaker 2: over the coming weeks. We just built a genuine friendship,

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Speaker 2: said Sloane, and didn't have the pressure of having to

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Speaker 2: stay if it generally didn't work out. Six months after

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Speaker 2: Matt got out of the hospital, he asked Slane out.

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Speaker 2: Sloane never made me feel like a burden and never

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Speaker 2: saw the disability first, Matt said, given my experiences with

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Speaker 2: other people, it became really clear that this is someone

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Speaker 2: I want wanted to spend my life with. Matt wanted

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Speaker 2: to get married, but Slowe's a little hesitant. I knew

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Speaker 2: how much caregiving would take out of me, she said.

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Speaker 2: I wanted to really know it was worth it, and

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Speaker 2: she prayed about it. She felt sure that they had

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Speaker 2: a good life ahead at them. The first year marriage

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Speaker 2: was very difficult. It was really hard, but the tough

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Speaker 2: love set in and now he's one hundred percent independent,

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Speaker 2: which is a very huge as a quadriplegic, said Sloane.

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Speaker 2: It's definitely more of a team effort now they educate

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Speaker 2: others about their innerabled relationship and cultivate education about disabilities.

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Speaker 2: I'm not a very good videographer or anything. It's just

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Speaker 2: a creative outlet for me, Slowe said. I don't necessarily

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Speaker 2: care about follower account. I generally just want to help people.

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Speaker 2: And even if we're just there to bring entertainment and

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Speaker 2: a smile to someone's face, that's great. Now. The happy

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Speaker 2: couple shares a four year old boy who was born blind,

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Speaker 2: and a four month old daughter. Their love story hasn't

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Speaker 2: been smoved, but after a decade together, they know more

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Speaker 2: than ever that they're definitely right for each other. How

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Speaker 2: precious Bride honors her dad in the most beautiful way

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Speaker 2: before their father daughter dance Written by Heather Rigglemann read

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Speaker 2: by Julie Provost Graptitian. Watch How this bride honors her

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Speaker 2: dad in the most beautiful way before their father daughter dance.

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Speaker 2: Every father treasures the small moments with his daughter, the

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Speaker 2: birthday calls, the encouraging messages, the reminders that she has

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Speaker 2: loved For one bride, those simple voicemails became the most

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Speaker 2: meaningful gift she could give her dad on her wedding day.

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Speaker 2: Chloe McIntyre had been saving the voicemails her father left

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Speaker 2: her since she was a freshman in high school. The

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Speaker 2: very first one came on her birthday, when her dad,

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Speaker 2: Scott Knight, called and saying happy Birthday to her over

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Speaker 2: the phone. Instead of deleting the message, after listening, Chloe

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Speaker 2: decided to keep it, and from that day forward, she

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Speaker 2: kept every voicemail her father left her. Over the years,

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Speaker 2: throughout high school, college, and into adulthood, her dad continued

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Speaker 2: leaving the same kind of messages, full of encouragement, love

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Speaker 2: and support. You can tell how adoring and playful he

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Speaker 2: was how much he adored his daughter. Chloe said her

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Speaker 2: father had always been her biggest cheerleader, and listening back

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Speaker 2: to those messages always brought her joy. In fact, they

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Speaker 2: meant so much to her that she even played one

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Speaker 2: of them for her now husband, Dylan on their first date.

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Speaker 2: After Dylan proposed, he remembered those treasured messages and suggested

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Speaker 2: something special they should incorporate them into their wedding. On

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Speaker 2: December twenty first, at the couple's wedding venue in Connecticut,

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Speaker 2: guests gathered as Chloe and her father prepared for their

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Speaker 2: father don dance. Scott stood waiting on the dance floor,

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Speaker 2: expecting the music to begin. Instead, something unexpected to fill

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Speaker 2: the room. One by one, the loving voicemails he had

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Speaker 2: left his daughter over the years begin to play for

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Speaker 2: everyone to hear. Chloe had carefully stitched several of them

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Speaker 2: together so they would roll right into the songs she

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Speaker 2: had chosen for their dance. As Scott listened to his

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Speaker 2: own voice echoed through the room, birthday songs, loving words

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Speaker 2: and heartfelt messages, motion watched over him. Tears filled his

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Speaker 2: eyes as he realized what his daughter had done by

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Speaker 2: the time Chloe walked towards him and the music began,

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Speaker 2: Scott was openly crying tears of joy. In that moment,

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Speaker 2: the messages that had once traveled through a phone line

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Speaker 2: became something even more powerful. They were reminder of years

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Speaker 2: of love, encouragement, and a father who's always been there

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Speaker 2: for his little girl. As they stepped into the dance

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Speaker 2: floor together, the room witnessed something truly beautiful, a daughter

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Speaker 2: honoring the voice that had cheered her on through every

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Speaker 2: season of life as a forty three four. You are

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Speaker 2: precious and honored in my sight, and I love you.

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