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In the town of Terre Haute, Indiana, in September
1961, a child was born. Her mother had severe problems of her own, certainly
unable to care for a child in any case. This child, though, would have been hard
on any mother. Confirmed were the severe birth defects that had been expected
because of her mother's history. Hydrocephalus was evident and doctor said that
the severely retarded child would never walk or talk and would certainly live
only a few years. In January 1964, she was sent to a Warsaw, Indiana nursing
home to die.
But dedicated care workers refused to give up on her. They taught her to
walk and talk and gave her love. On June 30, 1965, three-year-old
Gail Spencer walked out of that nursing home to the foster family that
would take her into their family. Amazed doctors still only gave her
another seven or eight years. They were wrong.
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There's more to this story of the little three-year-old girl
who walked out of that nursing home in 1965 where she had been sent to die. If
Gail had been conceived after 1973, she would have been aborted without a second
thought. But they would have been wrong also.
 I am thankful that Gail was born before abortion was legalized
in the United States, because today she is my wife and the mother of our two beautiful children.
She graduated from high school in 1980. She drives when she needs to, though she doesn't care for Las Vegas traffic.
She helps the children with their homework and our daughter with the Girl Scouts. She volunteers in the
children's classrooms and the PTA fund-raisers. She will always find the time to give a neighbor some help
in the home or with a craft idea. It would have been a real tragedy to kill her before birth just because
she was inconvenient or had a poor life forecast.
We lost Gail on the morning of June 25, 2026. She had been in good health and there was no warning. I guess it was just time for God to call his Butterfly Girl home. We will all miss her, including her recently arrived, ten month old Great-Granddaughter, Melody. Gail had an amazing life and we appreciate every day we had with her.
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