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Faith. Heartbreak. Hope. | A Motherhood Miracle You’ll Never Forget

• Stephanie Eccles • Season 1 • Episode 25

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Faith. Heartbreak. Hope. | A Motherhood Miracle Story
These aren’t just words—they’re the heart of this unforgettable true story. When one woman received the call that her daughter had been born—in a country far from home—her journey of courage, trust, and divine timing began.

In this emotional episode of Dear Daughters of God, you’ll hear how faith carried a mother through heartbreak, legal hurdles, and an international adoption to bring home a child destined to be hers. This is more than a story—it's a testimony of love, persistence, and miracles that defy all odds.

✨ What you'll experience in this video:

A rare, behind-the-scenes look at international adoption

Divine intervention in the face of uncertainty

The powerful bond between a mother and her daughter

A message of hope for anyone waiting on a miracle

🎥 Note: This episode was originally recorded in audio, but has been brought to life with avatars so you can experience the conversation in a more visual, connected way.

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I was called when she was 24 hours old, and I was there in Costa Rica in 24 hours. I had my suitcase packed'cause I knew it was coming close and got a phone call and she says, your baby's been born. It's a little girl. I can go, I can go. So I did. I followed her down this hall in, into this bedroom. I just walked up to this bed and she pointed down to this baby and she goes, here she is. Here's your baby. And I start to cry. Oh, because there's this perfect little baby just laying there on the bed and it was my child. Hello friends. I wanted to slip in here real quick before I started the interview. First of all, have you noticed the background's a little bit different? We're painting my office, so I'm in the living room. I, that's my daughter Sarah, right there. Right there. Alright. But that's not what I wanna tell you about. What I wanna tell you is that this video is going to look a little bit different, and that's because when I recorded this interview with Mary, it was only audio. No video at all. And how do you demonstrate that on YouTube? So I had to do things a little differently and I, of course I could have pictures, but I wanted you to see me and Mary as we spoke. So I did something really out of the norm for me, and that was, I used something very new for me, and it's avatars. So I have an avatar for me and I have an avatar for Mary, and it is just so you can see the two of us through this interview. So I can make it into a video and I'd love to hear what you think of it. I don't intend to use this on a regular basis, it's just to help make this audio into a video. So let me know what you think. While you're here, be sure like and subscribe to the Dear Daughters of God channel.

Stephanie:

Hello. I am Stephanie Eckles. This is Dear Daughters of God. Welcome. We're so glad you're here. This is Episode 25, faith Heartbreak Hope, a Motherhood Miracle. You'll never forget. I am a retired school administrator, natural storyteller, and I am a daughter of God. Now, I tell the stories of our lives from the perspective of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Welcome, dear daughters of God. I address you that way because that's what you are to him. To our Heavenly Father, you are dear. Alright. This is a special day at Dear Daughters of God. We have a guest. She's wonderful. Her name is Mary Tainter. Welcome Mary.

Merry:

It's

Stephanie:

so

Merry:

nice

Stephanie:

to

Merry:

be here with you.

Stephanie:

Thank you. I got to meet Mary at a friend's house named Stacy Harmer. She's so good at bringing people together, isn't she?

Merry:

Oh, she's amazing.

Stephanie:

And Mary and I hit it off right away. And I got to hear some of Mary's journey on becoming a mother of so many children. I thought, Mary, this is amazing. You've gotta come and tell me this story for dear daughters. And here she is, ready to tell us a story about a particular daughter. And I'll tell you about that in just a minute. But first, I wanna give a formal introduction. Of Mary Tanger. Mary Tainter alongside her husband Reed, of nearly 50 years, is a devoted mother of seven grandmother to 23, and recently a proud great grand Mary. Her life is a testament to the deep commitment she has to her expanding family, creating cherished traditions like. Handmade Christmas pajamas that knit the generations together. Her creative spirit doesn't just flourish within the family. It extends to her professional life as a skilled dress maker known for her bespoke wedding dresses and unique costumes. Mary's artistic talents, which were further developed through her studies in Spain. Enrich her work in oil painting and pottery. Her love for the natural world is evident in her passion for gardening, a skill that was showcased during her tenure at Red Butte Gardens as the owner of Excel Therapeutic. Massage and body work. Mary continues to dedicate herself to the wellbeing of others, providing care and relaxation through her therapeutic services. Living by the motto, move forward in love. Mary with Read by Her side, embodies a life of creativity, compassion, and an unwavering dedication to her family and community. Now embracing the joyous edition. Of great Grand Parenthood. Oh, so wonderful to have Mary with us today, Mary's gonna share a story about one of her children named Janie and Mary.

Merry:

How old is Janie today? Well, she's now 40, but I did get her when she was only two days old. I was called when she was 24 hours old, and I was there in Costa Rica in 24 hours.

Stephanie:

Now that's fast. Yeah. You got, I took a

Merry:

plane.

Stephanie:

You took a plane. Good thing you took a plane and you got there in 24 hours. Did you know she was coming any day?

Merry:

Yeah, I knew there was actually three babies that were lined up that could possibly have my baby. And I knew the names of the mothers and I knew that Alba was my baby's mother's name. I knew that before she was born.

Stephanie:

So you knew it was gonna be the mother named Alba?

Merry:

I knew that would be the mother.

Stephanie:

Wonderful. So Alba gave birth to Janie. Then what happened?

Merry:

Well, I first wanna start with a scripture. Yes. That when I was really young, I was probably around seven years old, I decided to read the Book of Mormon. That was kind of a big feat for a 7-year-old. I read through it and I think it took me quite a while to read, even up to first Nephi chapter three, verse seven, and it says, and akin to pass that I nephi sit under my father. I will go and do the things which your Lord hath commanded for. I know that the Lord giveth no commandment and that the children of men save. He shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the the things which he commanded them. That was so profound to me. And that's actually where I stopped reading at that point in my life.'cause you know, I didn't know it could get any better than that. And my dad, through my whole life always said to me, you know, Mary, you can do anything you put your mind to.'cause he saw that in me.

Stephanie:

He saw that in you. So your dad said, Mary, you can do anything that you put your mind to. That's right.

Merry:

And she always said that to me my whole life and. He said it to my twin as well.'cause both of us were really go-getters with whatever we did.

Stephanie:

So you have a twin,

Merry:

identical twin? Identical twin. Yeah. We even have matching glasses. Yeah, she's And

Stephanie:

what, what's her name?

Merry:

Holly. Holly. See Holly and Mary. We were born right before Christmas time. Oh, perfect. Names. Yeah. So for Christmas babies. Yeah, we were, we were

Stephanie:

a lot of work. So he said it to both you and Holly.

Merry:

He always really encouraged us to do whatever we want. We, we put our mind to that. We, we were capable of doing that. What a blessing. Yeah. To have a

Stephanie:

father that, that had that kind of understanding.

Merry:

Yeah.

Stephanie:

For his daughters

Merry:

so grateful to him. Mm-hmm. So, okay, so back to Janie. Well. What happened is there was a series of events. I was about 27. I no longer was able to have any more children, and I had a little girl, Holly and a little boy named Adam, which were just a joy to me that I could not have asked for more perfect children. I can still say that about them. In fact, all my children are just amazing, so I'm very grateful for them.

Stephanie:

That's incredible that you can still say that about them this many years later. Yeah. How, how old are those two now? Holly's

Merry:

48. And Adam's 46. 46, and if I got that wrong, they'll, they'll make sure to correct me later. Okay. After we decided to adopt, or actually I decided that we were going to adopt, which isn't I think, how most things happen in families, at least a does in our family. I, I was able to locate a woman that was actually at BYU, that was finishing up her master's, and she was from Costa Rica and she helped locate unw mothers that wanted to place their babies for adoption. What she usually had happened is she would have the family that she was gonna help locate a baby. They would pay for her to go home and do that, and then she'd come back. But we opted not to do that because we were on a real tight budget. So we waited till she graduated and went home.

Stephanie:

I see.

Merry:

So, but during that time we had like 20 documents. We had to get together and have'em all translate into Spanish and sent to the consulate General of Costa Rica. To have them approved so we could then move forward with the adoption. So we waited 18 months before we could actually go on September 20th, 1993, I got a phone call and I, I was waiting by the phone every day. I even had my suitcase packed'cause I knew it was, it was coming close and got a phone call and, and I'll call her. Mercy was on the other line, and she says, your baby's been born. It's a little girl. My husband wasn't home at the moment and just a little bit later he came driving and I came running out to tell him. And I slipped and I fell. Oh dear. And he thought for sure he was in trouble. Of course I fell. I got up and gotta tell him, you know, she's been born. And he said, it's a girl. I said, yes, Janie's been born.'cause we'd already decided on what we'd name her. The very next morning, we had this news like around nine o'clock in the evening. So I was on the plane at 6:00 AM in the morning, and we were able to do that because we had a friend who actually helped make arrangements for missionaries to leave on their missions. And so every day she would book me a flight and then she'd cancel it for me and she'd book me another flight. So I remember that night she lived next to her, running over to her house, say, okay, I'm gonna be in the morning. I can go, I can go. So I did. So it was a long flight over there. I had a layover in Florida, I believe, but it seemed like it took forever to get there. I don't think I got there till nine or 10 that evening, and I felt super disoriented. I felt like I had left my contact information on the list I had. I had left it at home and I had these big, huge Costa Rica bills that I didn't know what they were, but I had cash. Getting off the plane. We were in this hangar, this airplane hangar. It wasn't like I expected, like in Salt Lake City. Mm-hmm. And I went in and no one was in the airport. They were all outside. And I was dreading that Mercy was not gonna pick me up. But there she was and I was so relieved. And I got in her car and she just started driving. She asked me about my flight and how excited she was to have me meet my daughter and we actually went to her house. Okay. And I kind of was still kind of in a blur. I was tired and I'd been up so long and she said, oh, just follow me. And I followed her down this hall in, into this bedroom. I just walked up to this bed and she pointed down to this baby and she goes, here she is. Here's your baby. What? The baby was right there. Yeah. I just was, calm me off guard. And it was like this Mercy's aunt was right there, aunt Rosa, and she started to cry. And I start to cry. Oh, because there's this perfect little baby just laying there on the bed and it was my child. Oh, you have a scripture? Yes. What is it? It's in Psalms. Yes. Psalms 37. Verses three through five says, trust in the Lord and do good. So he shall dwell in the land and verily thou shalt he feed, delight yourself also in the Lord. And he shall give thee the desires of thy heart. Commit thy way unto the Lord. Trust in him and he shall bring it to pass. And that's that's how I fell when I saw her like she was the desire of my heart.

Stephanie:

I can see why that really. Was just shocking because uh, you weren't expecting the baby to be right there, but at the same time it was still wonderful. Well, but to see her just like that, well, yeah.

Merry:

I had been told by so many people this will never happen. In fact, the same day that I left the case worker for our case that did our initial home study, she had to come again to update our home study. And she told my husband that day, I know your wife's gone to Costa Rica, but don't be surprised if she comes home without a child.

My husband shared that with me. I was like, what? I was so surprised because I already knew that I was gonna have a child. I was gonna have this child that was, she was gonna be ours. And just moments after getting off the airplane there she was. Yeah, like within, well, probably took us 20 minutes to drive to this woman's home, but then she was right there and I just hadn't anticipated that. It's just, it caught me by surprise. Yes, my husband did join me. There in Costa Rica after I'd been there for two weeks. At the time when he came, we had just received word that the father, Janie's father could petition her and get her. The ruling in Costa Rica is that anyone in Costa Rica could claim a child before they had let it go, go to someone out outside, an outsider, anyone. That's what I was told. That's what my brain understood. So my husband was kind of concerned about that. We started talking to the, which is an adoption agency. They said, that's right. That's what can happen. We actually then searched located the birth father and went and to talk to him. We had someone that took care of the baby while we were gone, but just to, to plead our case to him, that what we would do for her. He then said to us, well, I have some people that I know that if I get her, I can sell her and make some money. Oh. I remember trying to stay composed when he said that to me. Mm. Because I was stunned. You had to keep from ringing his neck. Yeah. Because, you know, and he was a little man. I felt like I was kind of a monster next to him. He wa the people there were, were really small and tiny. And you were ERO so petite. Well, he was probably five foot two and he just was a little man. The next day after we met him. And we talked to the Patto multiple times, and actually my husband had, and so I dreamt that night that I dreamt how I could just kidnap her outta the country. We decided to take her to the, the orphanage so that he could not then sell her. That's the only thing that came to our minds to do because if we couldn't have her, we didn't want to let him have that privilege. So we went to the orphanage. We called them because they, they had to be called to let it come in, let us come in. I was on the phone and I said, well, my husband tried to call you. She says, yes. We, we remember talking to him and we told him to proceed with the adoption Reid. They said that to you? He says, yeah, I wasn't sure what they meant by that. Anyway, they're awesome, so we didn't worry about that. They said, you know, he'll be petitioned and, and he'll have to show his ability to care for that child. So I felt a lot less stressed about it, and it ended up that he was petitioned. He never showed up at court, which was even better. I wanted to kind of touch upon the tender mercies that occurred to me in Costa Rica. Okay. Because it, it just was so profound to me what continued to happen at one point. I'm kind of persistent, you know, like the, the, the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Uh, I guess I was the squeaky wheel. We had an attorney there from Costa Rica. We had to look, have one, and I was always making him banana bread and taking them into him. And when I'd go see him, I would just go into his office and there'd be all these people sitting in his office and he would just take care of one of us at a time while he was on the phone speaking Spanish, and then he'd be speaking English and it was just amazing. But one day I felt like. I wanted to make sure things were going right. So I went into the courthouse and I asked the judge that was over our case to come out and speak to me. You asked the judge this? Yeah, I didn't think anything. I just went in and did this'cause I couldn't think of anything else to do. I could maybe understand what was going on. My attorney was telling me things and never, my attorney would give me documents. I would send them home, they'd get translated and they'd be sent back to me. So then I could understand what the whole process was. So the judge actually came out of her court and spoke to me and we only spoke for maybe five or 10 minutes. And at one point I said to her, you know, Christmas is gonna be coming and I'd really like to be home for Christmas'cause family should be together. And she said to me, so when do you anticipate maybe being home? And I said, yesterday she corrected me'cause she thought I meant tomorrow. She said, oh, you mean tomorrow? And I said, no, yesterday. And I was speaking Spanish to her. Oh, you were speaking Spanish? Well, I didn't think I was speaking it very well, but anyway, I spoke Spanish to her and after she said, okay, well I'll see what I can do. And so my attorney's office was just like across the street and I met, went emelia over to my attorney and told him what I did. He says, what? No one asks the judge to come out of her chambers. I says, well, this is the first time for everything. You know I said, yeah, she said that you spoke fluent Spanish. I said, whoa, because I always spoke English to him.'cause he spoke English really well. I see. And I said, that's really weird. So that was a tender mercy that I was able to communicate with her. And I think it made a difference. And it came across as if it were fluent Spanish. You feel like you don't speak really at that level? No. No. I went to Spain and studied art. I just followed the Spanish majors around and they just did the talking for me. And when I was in stores, I learned how to say no. I'm just looking. I'd say means I'm just looking. Don't bother me. It was a couple days later after I'd called the judge out of her chambers. I left the residence where I was staying at a little apartment and I walked up the street and I could either go down the hill to catch the bus or I could go up the hill to catch the bus. To me, it made more sense to go down the hill because it was easier. But something told me to go up the hill. So I went up the hill. When I got there to the bus stop, the judge that I called out of her chamber, she was right there and she said to me, go see your attorney right now. It's really important that he has some good news for you. I mean, I was flabbergasted, but I went and saw him and he said, yes, you actually were able to move things forward quicker'cause you went and saw her. So what a tender mercy. I mean, sometimes we do things that we're told or we think, well, I didn't actually think it was not right to do that, but do things that might be out of the norm and we're really blessed. While I was there, I actually attended an American ward, and after I had been there a few weeks, some of the members told me, now be very careful when you go into San Jose. That's the capital there. Mm-hmm. Don't go through the center of town.'cause if you don't have your passport with you, they're gonna stop you and they're gonna harass you. And I says, I go through there every single day and they wave at me.'cause I'm going to the post office to see what mail I've gotten. They said, no, no, we we're stopped. Every time he says, well, I says, they do wave at me. And they couldn't believe it and they just were so shocked. I hear you've done this commonly every day too. That's right. And your attorney had said to you, I can't believe you asked the judge to come out of her chambers. Yeah. And look what it turned into. I know it was such a blessing. You running into the judge at the bus stop and her saying, go ahead and go talk to your attorney. Yeah. He has good news for you just because of that conversation you had with her. Right. And I remember riding home to my husband and telling him what happened, because even to this day, it still just sticks out in my mind. How I was direct by the Lord, but every morning I would pray when I'd get up and I'd lay up all these documents on my bed, and then I would just pick ones I thought I should have. And always that day, I always had the right documents with me. It was the oddest thing. I'm so grateful I understood that that's what I was supposed to do. And you also acted with such courage and boldness. Well, I didn't know better, you know? Yeah. So. I guess maybe if I were to do it now, I'd be more cautious, but there is the time in the season for everything. Mm. After my husband got home from Costa Rica, I was really missing my kids and there was a place I could go to in, in the city, San Jose, a, a place that was a calling place that they could make a call for you or if my husband was gonna call me, I'd show up then, and then he, they'd page me and I'd get on the phone with him and my daughter got on the phone that day and, and she said, mom, when are you gonna be home? It was probably mid-October. I said, oh, I'm going to be home December 17th. My husband was really kind of upset that I would tell her that. I says, well, that's the only date that popped into my head. Um, but then, then along the way, my attorney told me that they needed to do a home study for me there in Costa Rica, which we had done this extent of home study in North Salt Lake. Had social services come out, we did. They had to do a background check on us. They did all this stuff for us to do and we had that all translated and sent to the Cons General of Costa Rica. And that was all translated in Spanish and, and Costa Rica. And I had that and I was really beside myself. And where I lived in this little apartment, there was a gate. Everything was gated and locked in in Costa Rica. They had a very low crime rate on like children's abduction. But their theft rate was really, really high. So people all had bars on their windows and they had all their communities were all a little like a, this home had a gate around it. So I knew I had to go get a key copied so I could give it to them. So when they came to give my home study, they could get in and I was so frustrated because I had this other fellow that I'd met there, another husband and wife that I met there. He said, Mary, you're also worried about this and you know, you just have to surrender and realize that you can't do anything to change this. He told me the Serenity Prayer for Alcoholics Anonymous that just take care of what you can do. But I said, well, forget that. And I went to this place that was like the social services, and I went in and I explained to them that I brought a key for them to come up to my apartment and that I also needed to know when they had come and they said, oh, you know what? We can just visit with you right now. What? At the Social Security office? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. They said, we don't need to do that because we already have your home safe. I did not argue with them. I said, okay. In fact, they wanted me to hand them Janie, and I was really hesitant. They said, we wanna give her a little check over to make sure she's okay while we have a little discussion with you. I said, okay, so you'll give her back. They, they, they, they looked at me like I was being silly, but I just had a little talk with them and they said, this is all taken care of now, you know, and then the Lord took care of it. And right before I went into the social services office, there was a little bathroom I found and I went in and I knelt down and I prayed, and it seems weird. I would kneel down in some public bathroom. But to me it was so important for me to ask for help because I knew if I asked, he'd give it to me. Mm-hmm. And maybe he wouldn't give it to me the way I wanted to have it, but at least I was gonna ask. That was so amazing to me. That is amazing. And then there was times that I started feeling really, really homesick, like my chest would hurt and I'd never experienced that before when I went away to college. Never. Well, but now you have two kids at home that you're missing also, right? Yes. How long had you been gone? Well, at this point I was gone maybe two months, and I was there for three months. Altogether, they said that if my adoption wasn't final by January 1st, then everything's closes down for six weeks because countries have these holidays. I see. So I was frantic about that. My chest hurt so bad, but what I would do is I'd lay on my bed and I'd start naming everything I was grateful for as I would do that, it was like this pressure would leave my chest and I didn't understand why. And another tender mercy on how to soothe yourself through the anxiety of, of the ups and downs of this adoption become final or not? Well, yeah, it was waiting it out. All these little things had to be done so that it could be finalized. So it was near, at the end of November. It was getting really close to being final. In fact, they, I think they said it was finalized now, but you need to start making arrangements to go home. So there was a little travel agency that I was always walking by. They knew me and I would go in and make arrangements and everything was so booked.'cause it was the holidays, they couldn't get anything until the end of the year. I was still persistent. And every day would go by and say, was anything changed? And they say, no, Mary, it's still super booked up. One day I was tr walking by there and they motioned me to come in. They said, they said, Mary, we have a flight that you can take on the 17th. And I said, that's perfect.'cause that's when I told my daughter I would be home. On the 17th of December is when they told me I could come home. Ah, the Lord worked so mysteriously, you know? And I did not know when I told that to my daughter, that's really what was gonna happen. I mean, but that's what came to your mind. It just happened and I remember even that day after I left, I. The Traveler's office, my wallet was stolen. I had wanted to go buy my kids' presents. I didn't have the opportunity to do that because I didn't have any money. Someone I met there actually lent me some money so I could get to taxi to the airport and. Finished up step there. Did you have the money to get home? The ticket was already bought. Ticket was purchased, so the money was just to buy extra gifts. Oh, okay. When I got home, Holly was eight years old and Adam was six and they were so happy to see me. I was so happy to see them. And Christmas occurred and I remember saying to my daughter, Holly, I'm so sorry. That I didn't buy you a lot of gifts. She said, mom, you brought me home. The best present I would've ever wanted. You brought me home. Janie, to this day, Holly will still own that. That was the best Christmas I've ever had. And that's my story about Janie. Oh, she was such a blessing in our lives. Yeah, and she's still such a great blessing to me. It's a, a beautiful story. Thank you for sharing it with us. Mary. Now doesn't she live quite close to you? She lives about a mile away. Okay. Tell us about her family now. She's married and he's a wonderful man. Sometimes she'll text me, what can I do for you? And it's like, wow. You know, she, she's awesome. She has three beautiful daughters, Elizabeth Scarlet and Pearl. Elizabeth's a dancer. Elizabeth's now 16, so Scarlet's 14 and she does TaeKwonDo, their youngest, who is 11. Okay. She's a gymnast and she's just so talented at that and she's so good. So Janie is a, an amazing daughter and she's just there for me. Oh, that's so, but, but all my kids are, you know, all your kids are all seven, not all seven are, but they would all like to be, they'd all like to be. She kind of opened the door for me. So we adopted four more children after her. And were any from another country? No, they were all from Utah. Yeah. So we were just very blessed. We actually didn't really apply for them. Mm-hmm. We were doing foster care for the state of Utah. So you become foster parents of maybe a child that's younger than five, and if you have them long enough, sometimes they become available and then you could adopt them. So I thought, what a grand idea. We got a little boy after we got Janie. He was four and Janie was still three This, there's this child, he became available, he was being fostered and they were gonna adopt him, but they opted not to. They had him and a brother. They opted to keep the brother, but not Benjamin. Okay. So Benjamin, he had a brother in a foster home. Okay. And it was a legal risk foster home, so they were gonna be able to adopt them, but they decided. To let Benjamin go and just keep the older brother social services were discussing this case. We actually were approved before we got into the meeting for that adoption. I'm so glad to hear that boy was placed in a family after his brother was placed well, and his family that kept his brother we're very olive skinned and so was Craig, the older brother and Benjamin is really fair and pink. And so the family came to meet us that when they met us, they said, well, that's why, because he was supposed to be your child. Benjamin, has he found his brother? Well, they, they, when they got older? Mm-hmm. He did. There had been a family of like six children that we're taking custody of. I see. So he does have a relationship with a couple of them. Okay. So then after we got Benjamin and we were doing foster care. My foster care was like kids that were older than Benjamin and Janie. So I decided I wanted to get kids that were younger than them so that they could be the oldest kids. Yes. So then the state approached us about the legal at risk, and then in fact, we got these three children placed all at once, a sibling group. It was a set of twins, a boy and a girl, and their little baby sister that was two months old. So the twins were 15 months old and the sister was two months old, so we got them all together. That's a good age to get them. Although your hands were full, they were harder as teenagers than they were then. Yeah, they had a mind of their own when they got to be teenagers. Mm-hmm. They would have overalls on, I would just pick them both up by their overalls and walk and have a baby in a snuggly. And my daughter Holly, she was newly married at the time, and she would come over a lot and help me. With the kids. Oh, she was married by that time. So there's 22 years between my oldest Holly. Mm-hmm. And my youngest mystery. That's quite a spread. During the years when I'd have trouble with like Benjamin, it was kind of a handful, I'd had a dream about him and Janie before they were ever born. My dream were in the store and Benjamin was standing in the shopping cart. Janie was in a little inf seat then my dream. It was just a little boy and a baby sister. So when they called and told me that it was a little girl, I thought, oh, well, it was just a dream.'cause I thought I'd get a boy first. Oh. But then after we had Janie till she was three, and then we got Benjamin, and he was the child I saw in my dream. Wow. So when I struggled with him, I remember I had dreamt about him before he was born. And so he was my child. Mm-hmm. So it helped you through those difficult times. Yeah. Yeah. You knew he was meant for you. Yeah. He is a good boy. No wonder if those dreams, you needed that for those hard times. Yeah, that's true. Oh, inspired Mary. Thank you. Thank you for sharing these beautiful stories of adoption. Boy, you've given your life to motherhood. I always wanted to be a mother. I said, what do you wanna be when you grow up? I'd say, oh, a mother. Ah. I wanna thank our audience for listening today. Wasn't Mary's story inspirational? 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