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.
"If your neighbor is experiencing a loss, or a new neighbor is moving in, or if a neighbor lost a job or a baby or a husband. Stand in the gap. This is how we walk each other back home."
The wall of semi-trucks stretched across all of the westbound and eastbound lanes of the interstate—13 trucks in total—creating a shorter distance for the man to fall if he did, in fact, decide to jump.
