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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: This mom and daughter share life at a retirement community

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Speaker 2: and it's quite a special thing. Written by MICHAELA. Gordonia,

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Speaker 2: read by Jully Provost, some very special family members in

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Speaker 2: New York are enjoying a mother daughter bond that most

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Speaker 2: people don't get to experience at their ages. The mother

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Speaker 2: and her daughter both live at the same Rochester retirement center.

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Speaker 2: They get to see each other every day and spend

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Speaker 2: quality time with their friends and neighbors, and they just

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Speaker 2: love it. It's the first time that the mother and daughter

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Speaker 2: have lived together for over five decades, so their Mother's

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Speaker 2: Day celebration this year was extra special. I'm so happy

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Speaker 2: that I could be with my daughter here every day,

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Speaker 2: every minute, said Julia to Shelley, who is ninety two.

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Speaker 2: Her daughter, sixty seven year old Pamela, feels the same way.

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Speaker 2: They have quite the mother daughter bond. I am so

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Speaker 2: lucky to have my mom, Pamela said. I mean, all

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Speaker 2: my friends my age don't have their mom, and I

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Speaker 2: have my mom for sixty seven years. It's great. It's awesome.

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Speaker 2: They moved from Westchester, New York to a legacy at

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Speaker 2: Clover Blossom in Rochester, New York to be closer to

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Speaker 2: Pamela's children and grandchildren. Now when the grandkids visit, they

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Speaker 2: get a two for one special Grandma and great grandma.

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Speaker 2: The pair looks just alike to they both wear glasses

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Speaker 2: and have the same hairstyle. You can tell right away

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Speaker 2: that they're related. They both feel very fortunate to live

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Speaker 2: together and are proud to say they are related just

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Speaker 2: as much as they are mother and daughter, Julia says,

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Speaker 2: as they are also great friend. It is just incredible

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Speaker 2: that this mother and daughter get to enjoy each other's company.

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Speaker 2: It's obvious that they aren't putting on a show. They

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Speaker 2: truly do love each other deeply and want each other around.

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Speaker 2: What a blessing when they get to have this kind

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Speaker 2: of experience in their older years. I hope the rest

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Speaker 2: of the years they have together are blissful and happy.

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Speaker 2: Listen to your father who gave you life, and don't

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Speaker 2: spice your mother when she is old. Proverbs twenty three

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Speaker 2: to twenty two. Firefighters save a little League game and

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Speaker 2: give the kids a memory, and they will never forget.

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Speaker 2: Written by Heatherrigaman. Rad vigly proposed, firefighters save a little

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Speaker 2: League game and give the kids a memory they will

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Speaker 2: never forget. There's something about firefighters when you're a kid.

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Speaker 2: Maybe it's the flashing lights, the towering trucks, the heavy

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Speaker 2: uniforms that mark them as heroes. Maybe it's the suit

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Speaker 2: itself that reminds us of the bravery, making them feel

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Speaker 2: larger than life. For so many of us, firefighters, for

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Speaker 2: some of our very first heroes, the kind we waved

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Speaker 2: at in parades, drew and cran and believed could fix

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Speaker 2: almost anything. If you're from just about any small town

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Speaker 2: in the Midwest, our firefighters are the star of the show.

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Speaker 2: No matter whether it's a parade or gassing up to

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Speaker 2: escort our sports teams back to town after a game.

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Speaker 2: It just makes some moments on the field so much sweeter.

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Speaker 2: And in Blossom Valley, California, a fire crew reminded a

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Speaker 2: whole Little League field why that still feels true. What

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Speaker 2: starts as an ordinary playoff game in Rios Canyon, Little

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Speaker 2: league quickly turned into a disappointment when the light suddenly

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Speaker 2: flickered and went dark. Tuesday night, two teams of boys

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Speaker 2: ages ten to twelve were in the third inning of

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Speaker 2: a distrect forty one playoff game when a nearby power

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Speaker 2: line began our sing just before seven pm. The dangerous

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Speaker 2: issue happened right next to the field, forcing everyone to

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Speaker 2: stop and wonder if the game was over before it

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Speaker 2: was supposed to be. As the field went dark, you

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Speaker 2: can almost picture it. Dusty cleats in the dirt, nervous

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Speaker 2: parents in folding chairs, kids grouping gloves and bats while

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Speaker 2: staring at a dark field, heart sinking. It's the plotline

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Speaker 2: of every family of young kids in the early summer

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Speaker 2: field lights start to flicker and we lost all power.

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Speaker 2: Parent and league board member Ryan Abel said for families,

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Speaker 2: says she wasn't just an inconvenience. If the game couldn't

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Speaker 2: be finished, playoff schedules, pitch counter rules and future games

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Speaker 2: could be altered. And we all know how a game

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Speaker 2: of fun turns into disappointment if it can't be played.

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Speaker 2: But the Lakeside fire crew responded to secure the area

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Speaker 2: ahead of utility repairs and somewhere in the middle of

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Speaker 2: handling the emergency, they saw something deeper, a field full

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Speaker 2: of kids whose night was slipping away. Fire Captain Lauren

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Speaker 2: then learned the game was in jeopardy. Maybe it was

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Speaker 2: a little bit of a heartfield moment, he said, all

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Speaker 2: is we don't see these kids just go home and

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Speaker 2: be sad. It's like, let them play baseball, and that's

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Speaker 2: exactly what they did. After getting approval, crews brought in

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Speaker 2: a rescue unit equipped with fifteen foot tall led light

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Speaker 2: towers with six powerful lights and positioned it near the

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Speaker 2: left field line. The rescue unit remained available for emergency calls,

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Speaker 2: but that night it became something else. The game is saved,

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Speaker 2: Brian said, as massive lights let up the outfield and

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Speaker 2: much of the infield, allowing the playoff game to continue.

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Speaker 2: And if it wasn't sweet enough, after the final inning,

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Speaker 2: the kids got a tour of the fire rig. Those

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Speaker 2: guys are true heroes, Ryan said, not only in the

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Speaker 2: sense but willing to rally around the community. They saw that,

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Speaker 2: you know, these boys as well as these family members matter.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes heroism looks like rushing into danger, and sometimes it

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Speaker 2: looks like showing up with enough light. So kids can

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Speaker 2: finish their baseball game. And maybe that's why firefighters still

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Speaker 2: feel like heroes even when we grow up. Your life,

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Speaker 2: Chiney four others that they may see your good deeds

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Speaker 2: and glorify your father in heaven. Matthew five sixteen.

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