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A Simple Story

By Susan & Wayne Purdy

My story is simple. It's about a 17-year-old girl 3000 miles from home. My baby's father—my soulmate—and I moved away from everyone and everything we knew to have a real chance of making something of ourselves. We got married in our small apartment with just a couple of family members as our guests and the rest were all the people we met out here. Wayne told me that day that I would have a big fancy wedding someday. A few months later our daughter was born, so our family was complete. We both worked over the years and out of the blue I found out I had MS, so in my mind no big wedding! Wayne said to me that on our 25th anniversary we would have a big wedding—the one I always dreamed of. And we did! If it weren’t for Edmonton and the opportunities we got here and the great people we’ve met along the way, we wouldn’t have made it to our 25th anniversary wedding. That's our story OF LOVE!

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Comments about this Story

This story is like the name . (It has true love ., a long happy marrage promises kept under even the most seriousness of SUSAN''S problems with M.S ., WAYNE YOU ARE A VERY RARE HUSBAND a lot of RESPECT IS GIVEN TO AND OF COURSE SUSAN ., IF NOT FOR EDMONTON ALBERTA AND ALL IT CHOICES AND SPIRIT AND LOVE OF THE CITY THEY MAY NOT HAVE MADE IT AS SUSN SAYS THANKS FOR LETTING ME SAY ALL THIS I TO HAVE M.S AND YOU REALLY INSPIRE ME SUSAN & WAYNE I HOPE YOU ARE NOT OVER LOOKED AT THE VOTING ON AUGUST 5 2009
03-Aug-09 by Tammy

excellent story ., it gives love hope especilly at such a young age .moving all those miles to have a better life in EDMONTON., ALBERTA i am proud of your story .thank-you
06-Aug-09 by steve

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