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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: After being paralyzed nearly two years ago, this man walked

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Speaker 2: across the stage to earn his MBA. Written by Mikhaela Godoni,

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Speaker 2: read by Juli Provost. Paralyzed man walks again at Virginia

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Speaker 2: Union University for the second time, thanks to a whole

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Speaker 2: lot of determination and a pair of robotic legs. He

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Speaker 2: crossed the stage in a similar manner to get his

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Speaker 2: bachelor's degree last year, and this time it is for

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Speaker 2: his Masters degree in business. The grad Jaden Pigott, said,

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Speaker 2: I am reaching for the stars, taking the next step.

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Speaker 2: Two years ago, Jaden's life changed when a truck hit

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Speaker 2: him while he was riding on an ees scooter. It

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Speaker 2: insured his final cord and crushes, leaving him in the

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Speaker 2: hospital for months. Paralyzed from the chest down, Jaden was

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Speaker 2: told he'd never walk again, but it is able to

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Speaker 2: walk with the help of a robotic exoceleton device. The

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Speaker 2: NBA grad hopes to pursue a career in real estate

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Speaker 2: and help people with disabilities. He knows from experience hard

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Speaker 2: it can be to fined an accessible home. After his graduation,

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Speaker 2: he reflected, my life took a big turn. I could

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Speaker 2: have easily been mad at the world and given up,

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Speaker 2: but I chose to not give up and achieve the

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Speaker 2: goals I had set for myself, because these situations try

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Speaker 2: to break you. I learned situations in your life come

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Speaker 2: to direct you to God and to develop something in you.

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Speaker 2: And if I can do it, then it can be done.

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Speaker 2: He truly has a never give up attitude. I just

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Speaker 2: want to help a lot of people out there like me,

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Speaker 2: like to find those accommodating homes where they can feel

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Speaker 2: comfortable and feel very positive to live in. He said

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Speaker 2: of his goals, I pray that Jaden buying success and

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Speaker 2: his new career and helped many people who also have disabilities.

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Speaker 2: God will surely use him. I'm able to do all

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Speaker 2: things through Him who gives me strength. Philippians four thirteen.

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Speaker 2: A nurse saved a baby no one thought would survive.

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Speaker 2: Fifty years later, they still have a strong bond. Written

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Speaker 2: had a wriggle band read Budguy Provost. A nurse saved

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Speaker 2: a baby no one thought would survive. Two years later,

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Speaker 2: they still have a strong bond. This story makes me

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Speaker 2: think heaven must sound a little bit like a Niekio,

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Speaker 2: a place where beginnings happen and hold a lifetime of love.

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Speaker 2: Little baby Carol was just one pound eleven ounces, small

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Speaker 2: enough to fit in the palm of your hand when

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Speaker 2: the doctors declared she wouldn't survive, being born four months

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Speaker 2: too early. But her nurse, June, never saw how tiny

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Speaker 2: she was, only that she was a life worth fighting for.

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Speaker 2: In a moment of remembering what that moment was like,

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Speaker 2: she recalls, I resuscitated her. When the doctor came in,

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Speaker 2: I said she's breathing. Four words that changed everything, Four

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Speaker 2: words that carried Hope back into a room drowning in grief.

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Speaker 2: June helped save Carol's life, but her story didn't end there.

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Speaker 2: June then became a godmother to her. She became family,

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Speaker 2: stepped beyond the bounds of care and state. Over the years,

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Speaker 2: the woman who once stood beside an incubator became family.

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Speaker 2: That kind of love doesn't happen every day. Carol grew

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Speaker 2: up carrying something many people spend their whole lives longing

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Speaker 2: for the deep certainty that someone fought for her because

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Speaker 2: she could never fight for herself. She said it simply,

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Speaker 2: I always just know I'm loved. There's nothing better than that.

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Speaker 2: And now, decades later, the story has turned beautifully tender.

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Speaker 2: At ninety five, June, the nurse who spent her life

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Speaker 2: caring for others, is now the one needing care, and Carol,

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Speaker 2: her once fragile goddaughter, is stepping into help care for

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Speaker 2: the woman who once helped save her. The relationship has

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Speaker 2: come full circle. What began when trembling hands and anikiu

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Speaker 2: became a lifelong bond built on fierce love, faithfulness, and

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Speaker 2: quiet devotion. The baby June help protect is now protecting her.

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Speaker 2: When I came to the nursing home, they took over

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Speaker 2: and took care of me, June shared, there's something sacred

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Speaker 2: about that kind of loyalty. In a world where there's

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Speaker 2: so many relationships who fade with time, theirs endured through decades,

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Speaker 2: through aging, through changing roles, through life itself. Carol is

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Speaker 2: no longer the tiny baby fighting to st. June is

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Speaker 2: in no longer the young nurse rushing through hospital halls,

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Speaker 2: but love remains. Maybe that's the miracle tucked inside the story,

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Speaker 2: not only that a life was saved, but that love stayed.

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Speaker 2: A sheriff Lane said, so beautifully. Nurses are like angels

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Speaker 2: sent down from God to take care of us. And

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Speaker 2: sometimes years later, the ones once carried become the ones

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Speaker 2: carrying them, even to your old age and gray hairs.

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Speaker 2: I'm he, I'm he who will sustain you. I have

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Speaker 2: made you and I will carry you. I will sustain you,

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Speaker 2: and I will rescue you. Isaiah forty six to four.

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