Dorothy Custer is the definition of gumption. Listen to her tell the story of how she met her husband, then at 2:10 she reveals the secret to long life (btw, it's the cutest thing ever).
When Larissa met Ian at college in 2005, she never dreamed she'd one day be his wife ... and his caretaker. After a tragic accident left Ian without the ability to speak, walk or care for himself, she did what any woman in love would do: she married him.
"I don’t want you to think I am crazy. I just HAD to take this in for a moment. I even called my wife.’ Puzzled, I asked him, ‘What’s wrong?’ When he had turned over the cards, he saw the names of my babies... I looked at him with complete shock and utter disbelief."
"That blue stain was just a big fat negative in my life. I hated it. The next month, we got devastating news about my sweet son, the one who splattered it all over our carpet."
"I fell to my knees, and then to my back. It came from up from my gut. I could almost physically feel it moving to the top of my abdomen, to my chest, into my neck and then my head. I cannot describe the pain. It was like my soul was slowly being ripped away from my body."
"The day my Mom died I called my husband...Then he began to tell me a story about my Mom. A story that I never knew about her before because she didn’t want me to know."
