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Speaker 1: Hello, friends.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Story Behind Podcast. This is the show for

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Speaker 2: people who love hearing a good story and who believe

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Speaker 2: the world could use more positivity. We're the team behind

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Speaker 2: God Updates and God Too, and we hope these weekly

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Speaker 2: short stories will brighten your day.

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Speaker 3: Hello, welcome back to the story behind podcast, all you

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Speaker 3: loyal listeners. And if there are any newcomers out there,

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Speaker 3: we welcome you. I've got a fresh cup of coffee

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Speaker 3: this morning. And as it happens, I'm just on the

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Speaker 3: brink of hoping for some of that cooler fall weather.

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Speaker 3: And I've been thinking about family a lot this week.

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Speaker 3: It's the 25th anniversary of my father's passing. But you know,

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Speaker 3: that story was redeemed when four years later on the

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Speaker 3: same date, we gave birth to our baby girl and

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Speaker 3: she came out with his blue eyes and light blonde hair. So,

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Speaker 3: you know, that's just some of the amazing power of

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Speaker 3: family and some of the wonderful things that can happen.

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Speaker 3: And I've got two stories today about the power of family.

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Speaker 3: And so we'll be back in just a moment with those.

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Speaker 3: All right, well, let's get going with today's first story

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Speaker 3: on The Story Behind, a production of GodTube.com, where you

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Speaker 3: can watch without worry and where each of our stories

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Speaker 3: can be found with a full video that you can

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Speaker 3: also watch at GodTube.com slash blog. Our first story today

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Speaker 3: is by Michaela Gordonei about sisters who gave birth to

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Speaker 3: twin boys just hours apart. Each of them, yeah, twins,

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Speaker 3: and how they can't wait to watch them grow up together.

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Speaker 3: Four babies are a lot to bring into one family,

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Speaker 3: but that's what happened to this Texas clan. Two sisters

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Speaker 3: each gave birth to sets of twin boys just hours apart.

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Speaker 3: Rainy Jones's due date was two months later than her

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Speaker 3: older sister Darian Lowe's, so it came as a complete surprise.

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Speaker 3: But the sisters couldn't be happier that their boys have

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Speaker 3: started out life so close. The boys' births mark three

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Speaker 3: generations of twins in their family. The sisters have two

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Speaker 3: siblings who are twins, too. She found out she was pregnant.

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Speaker 3: Then I found out I was pregnant. She found out

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Speaker 3: she was having twins. Then I found out I was

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Speaker 3: having twins, Rainey said. Darian gave birth on March 20th.

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Speaker 3: Rainey visited her and the babies in the hospital and

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Speaker 3: then went home. She then had to go into an

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Speaker 3: emergency delivery and was rushed to the hospital immediately. where

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Speaker 3: she gave birth just 13 hours after Darian on March 21st.

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Speaker 3: Had her boys been born just an hour earlier, then

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Speaker 3: they would all share the same birthday. We wanted kids

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Speaker 3: around the same time, but we never thought that it

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Speaker 3: would be 13 hours, Rainey said. We didn't even expect

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Speaker 3: it to be a month apart. The sister's mother, Shannon Jackson,

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Speaker 3: always wanted a big family, and she certainly got her wish.

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Speaker 3: I went from zero to four instantly, Shannon said, I

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Speaker 3: used to dream for a big family because I didn't

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Speaker 3: have much growing up, and wow, it's huge that I

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Speaker 3: can share this with my girls. Both of the sisters

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Speaker 3: cannot wait to see the boys grow up together. It's

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Speaker 3: just incredible that these sisters, who are four years apart

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Speaker 3: and are not twins themselves, would both give birth to

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Speaker 3: twin boys just hours apart. It's also a blessing. They'll

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Speaker 3: both certainly be able to relate to their twin parenting

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Speaker 3: joys and and struggles. As it says in Luke 1,

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Speaker 3: 36 and 37, And behold, your relative Elizabeth in her

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Speaker 3: old age has also conceived a son, and this is

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Speaker 3: the sixth month with her who was called barren. For

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Speaker 3: nothing will be impossible with God. We'll be back in

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Speaker 3: just a moment with our second story. All right, let's

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Speaker 3: get going with that second positive and encouraging story. This

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Speaker 3: one considers the power of promises, especially those we make

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Speaker 3: as fathers, which are especially important because of the way

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Speaker 3: that can show our children how the promises of the

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Speaker 3: Heavenly Father can be trusted. This story is written by

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Speaker 3: Heather Riggleman. It's titled, Her Father Promised to Walk Her

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Speaker 3: Down the Aisle. and even after a heart attack, still

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Speaker 3: made it happen. Her father promised to walk her down

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Speaker 3: the aisle, and even after a heart attack, he still

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Speaker 3: made it happen. That's the thing about dads. There are

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Speaker 3: heroes from the moment we take our first breath, and

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Speaker 3: the good ones will move mountains to make our dreams

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Speaker 3: come true. That's why this story out of Cleveland, Ohio

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Speaker 3: had me reaching for the tissues. Just days before Rachel

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Speaker 3: Nelson was set to marry her fiancé, Dana Schultz, her Father,

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Speaker 3: Rick Nelson, began experiencing chest pains while visiting a friend.

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Speaker 3: His wife, Gail Nelson, rushed him to the Cleveland Clinic's

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Speaker 3: Marymount Emergency Department, where doctors discovered he was having a

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Speaker 3: heart attack. Rick was airlifted to the Cleveland Clinic's main campus,

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Speaker 3: and testing revealed multiple severe blockages requiring emergency quadruple bypass surgery.

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Speaker 3: cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Faisal Bakhtin. My daughter, Rachel, is getting

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Speaker 3: married Saturday. I have to be there. The surgery was successful,

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Speaker 3: but everyone assumed Rick would miss the ceremony. Instead, caregivers

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Speaker 3: from departments across the hospital quietly came together to create

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Speaker 3: something unforgettable. They transformed the hospital rooftop into a wedding venue.

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Speaker 3: dressed Rick in his tuxedo, and carefully wheeled him outside

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Speaker 3: so he could do exactly what he'd promised his daughter,

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Speaker 3: walk her down the aisle. Rachel's first look with her

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Speaker 3: dad became even more meaningful because it almost didn't happen.

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Speaker 3: It's hard to put into words what this meant to us,

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Speaker 3: Gail said. Everyone went above and beyond. Dr. Faisal Fakaeen

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Speaker 3: reminded us why moments like this matter so deeply. Moments

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Speaker 3: like these remind us the work we do is about

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Speaker 3: more than medicine, he said. It's about people, families, and

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Speaker 3: milestones that can't be repeated, and the shared commitment of

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Speaker 3: a team to make something so meaningful possible. And the

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Speaker 3: sweetest moment of all was when his wife ribbed him

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Speaker 3: about the whole situation. He didn't have to make this

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Speaker 3: dramatic of a move to get out of giving a speech,

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Speaker 3: she joked. Oh my, love showed up that day wearing scrubs,

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Speaker 3: a tuxedo, and the determined heart of a father who

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Speaker 3: refused to break a promise. As it says in Proverbs 20,

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Speaker 3: verse 7, the righteous who walks in his integrity, blessed

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Speaker 3: are his children after him. We hope these stories have

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Speaker 3: inspired you and to consider maybe sharing with those family

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Speaker 3: members who are special to you today. Remember, we are

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Speaker 3: guaranteed everything, so tell those folks you love them And

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Speaker 3: we'll be back with you in a couple of days

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Speaker 3: with two more uplifting stories on the story behind.

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