Do you remember radio star Paul Harvey's The Rest of the Story?

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Phoenix

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I loved his stories. There was one told to me by my friend Tosca. She's listed here in the thread about strong women. Wisdom and kindness seeped from her soul. I always came away enriched by our time together.

I was enmeshed in a very difficult period of my life. I spent an afternoon and evening with her. As we were getting ready to say good night she said, "Don't ever give up. In the next second things could change."

"Oh, I don't know about that, Tosca." I said.

"The best example I can give is of the guy whose life was spent inventing nylon. He really got discouraged. It seemed the government would never grant him a patent. He began to doubt the usefulness of his life. Finally thinking there was no point, he killed himself. Two month later his patent was approved, and you know what happened after that."

"Where did you hear that?"

"On Paul Harvey's The Rest of the Story," she said, taking my hands. "So like Paul said, 'Never, never, never give up, for in the next second things could change and transform your whole life.'"
 

Phoenix said:
I loved his stories. There was one told to me by my friend Tosca. She's listed here in the thread about strong women. Wisdom and kindness seeped from her soul. I always came away enriched by our time together.

I was enmeshed in a very difficult period of my life. I spent an afternoon and evening with her. As we were getting ready to say good night she said, "Don't ever give up. In the next second things could change."

"Oh, I don't know about that, Tosca." I said.

"The best example I can give is of the guy whose life was spent inventing nylon. He really got discouraged. It seemed the government would never grant him a patent. He began to doubt the usefulness of his life. Finally thinking there was no point, he killed himself. Two month later his patent was approved, and you know what happened after that."

"Where did you hear that?"

"On Paul Harvey's The Rest of the Story," she said, taking my hands. "So like Paul said, 'Never, never, never give up, for in the next second things could change and transform your whole life.'"
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Back in the '80s, I was working at an airport where we serviced and fueled corporate and private airplanes and Paul Harvey was a regular that passed through pretty regularly. One time a charter jet dropped him and his wife off and after the plane had taxied away his wife realized that she had left her purse on the airplane. I quickly contacted the tower and requested that they direct the plane back to our hangar. The plane returned and I ran out and grabbed her purse. When I returned it to his wife, Paul Harvey handed me a $50 bill. On the other hand, he would complain to us whenever he had to walk across the wet tarmac.
 
56Boomer said:
Back in the '80s, I was working at an airport where we serviced and fueled corporate and private airplanes and Paul Harvey was a regular that passed through pretty regularly. One time a charter jet dropped him and his wife off and after the plane had taxied away his wife realized that she had left her purse on the airplane. I quickly contacted the tower and requested that they direct the plane back to our hangar. The plane returned and I ran out and grabbed her purse. When I returned it to his wife, Paul Harvey handed me a $50 bill. On the other hand, he would complain to us whenever he had to walk across the wet tarmac.
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Interesting. That was cool of you to do that and him to pay you. Maybe he was afraid of falling.
 
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