Fostering Over 150 Kids And 80th Class Reunion

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:03):
Robert and Margaret is Dale, who live in England, have
fostered over one hundred and fifty children in the last
forty five years and they have no plans of stopping.
So they absolutely love doing it. But that's not to
say there haven't been times when the couple, who have
been married for fifty eight years, found it difficult to
see a child in their care move on. They formed
such a bond with the last little girl they fostered,
actually that her adoptive parents asked them to become her godparents,

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which is really sweet. There was also another baby who
came into their lives that was just too special to
let go. There was a little girl who was born
with Down syndrome named Kim in a complex complex heart condition,
and they decided to adopt her. Even though she was
only given nine months, they gave her twenty one years
of love. That's how she lasted so long. And also
the couple says they're not going to stop. They have

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a couple kIPS of their own, but right now they're
caring for an eight month old baby boy. It's been
with them since they since he was eight days old.
And they said, when you get to our age, you're
up a couple times in the night anyways, and a
stroller makes a good stuff institute for a walking frame.
And we're both adept with diapers.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
Wow, that is how many kids, one hundred and forty,
one hundred and fifty. That is amazing. Good for them,
all the lives they've shared. I know this is a
short and sweet one, but three Wisconsin ladies from Galesville
High School's class of nineteen forty four celebrated their eightieth

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class reunion. Wow, they're ninety eight years old, and they
celebrated with cake and ice cream and called a few
classmates who weren't able to make it to heaven right well,
and they called heaven they did for the other two
thousand but or whatever. Yeah, they're only three of them,
but they got together nineteen forty four.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
That photo reminded me of my step grandpa's funeral. All
of his fraternity brothers, who were old as hell, all
showed up together and it was the sweetest like visual
I've ever seen.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
That's so nice. Your brother for life, I guess. So.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah, they hated me. It was a fun.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Were they paddling you at a funeral. That's weird. Now.
The story I got, we fans got,