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Grant had all of $80 left his wife Julia. She had another $130 strangers responded by failing to pay his bills, the former president Still smarting from bankruptcy is better staying grant that summer suffered from excruciating staying in his throat as well.

When he finally visited Dr. October Graham learned he had incurable throat and tongue cancer.

Likely a product of longtime cigars have been no stranger to financial misfortune failing as a farmer and a rent collector prior to the Civil War. He lived in a log cabin and sold firewood on the streets of St. Louis to make.

However, now that he is confronting the terrifying leaving Julia grizzle general to save the union one final mission to save his family from impoverishment as property and possessions grant still retain something of great value his recollections of Lori. Taciturn and reserved. Grant was a convivial storyteller friends as Mark Twain with yarns of war and politics for years, tween has suggested a cramp in his memoirs, now destitute former president finally agreed to cash in on his celebrity in need of financial rescue himself after a series of failed vestments between grant to a contract with newly launched publishing house gave him a $1000 check to cover living expenses engaged in a furious race against time is a cancer tactic body. Grant dug into his writing with military efficiency trying out as many as 10,000 words in a single day.

He poured three tall stacks of orders and maps that help to re-create his most famous battles with minute fidelity grant us down, between not just the quantity of the quality of this process, Grant penned his manuscript until his hand grew too feeble in the spring of 1885, forcing him to employ a stenographer even speak, however, became laborious as his condition deteriorated following the advice of doctors is out for the salubrious power pure mountain air grant the camp at the onset of summer from his Manhattan brownstone to an Adirondack resort in a cottage on the slopes of Mount McGregor Grant wants his final campaign to complete his with excruciating pain accompanying every swallow. Grant was unable to eat solid food.

His body withered by the day.

The voice that once commanded armies could barely muster with Grant's doctors gave him morphine only knowingly in order to keep his mind clear for writing a swap is throat with cocaine to provide topical pain relief and used hypodermic needles to inject Randy during the course of his coughing fits. Through it all. Grant persisted in honing his manuscript editing, adding new page is pouring over proofs in his first volume as he sat on the porch on even the steamy sick days swallowed and blankets will have a scar covering his neck tumor which was now going to New York son as a man's too fast. Put together his voice finally abandoned him. Grant scribbled his thoughts in pencil on small slips of paper when tween visited Grant at the college. He brought the good news that he had already presold 100,000 copies of the auto biography, relief grant knew he had succeeded in giving Julia and his children. Financial security is mission accomplished.

Grant finally laid down his pen on July 16 after crafting a Herculean 366,000 words in less than a year, seven days later Grant's pulse flicker and ultimately gave out implying army of door-to-door salesman tween sold more than 300,000 copies of the personal memoirs of success.

Grant two-volume set even outsold tween slaves work very and resulted in Julia Grant receiving $450,000 in royalties equivalent to $12 million today. Not just a commercial success but a literary one as well, although he admitted discussion of his presidency, or sensitive personal matters such as drinking, many scholars consider Grant's autobiography the finest memoir penned by an American president and perhaps the foremost military memoir in English language and a great job by Greg Hendler and special thanks to Christopher Klein is the author of four books and a frequent contributor history Channel, National Geographic and American Heritage, and what a story. Indeed, Grant's last battle was against the clock. It was for his family held out and is always the warrior fought to the end.

My goodness.

Anyone who knows anything about grant is awarded knows that now they know another side of his warrior spirit 300,000+ words in less than a year older. Save his family and he doesn't just pin any memoir, read the book, pick it up on Amazon in order to start reading it aloud. Family.

It is indeed classic American literature course took a voice like Mark Twain's discovery. Both men by the way, tamely in financial ruin throughout their lives. Story of Mark Twain, Ulysses S Grant space against the clock. Save great heroes family destitution. You, on our American store if you love the stories we tell about this great country and especially the stories of Americans which passed all of our stories about American history innovation culture and faith brought to us by the great folks at Hillsdale College placement. Students study all the things that are beautiful in life. All the things that are good in life. If you can get that Hillsdale will come to you with a free and terrific online courses go to Hillsdale.edu to learn more millions will make Medicare coverage decisions for next year and United healthcare can help you feel confident about your choices for those eligible Medicare annual enrollment runs from October 15 through December 7. If you're working past age 65. You might be able to delay Medicare enrollment. Depending on your employer coverage. It can seem confusing, but it doesn't have to be this@uhcmedicarehealthplans.com to learn more United healthcare helping people live healthier lives.

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Michael R consciousness but I didn't know what was going on as well. Take care, parents, family were listening to Stern whose parents were German immigrants that settled in New York. My father had some securities on some real estate shapes that they were lost. Never recover eventually wound up getting jobs in the restaurant business. No longer is a manager's job became fewer and far between, and wound up being a waiter for the rest of his life, he worked hard to bring home money so take care assist them so very heroic way. I never heard him complain. She much financially speaking. Great family was a great father grew up very dense neighborhood sense that those lots of people have money, five of us. Also, THERE was no elevator had one bedroom share with my two sisters. They slept together. I slept.com. So last one and first when people's my parents bedroom one bath longer term considerations achieving financial success that his dad probably could've never treated Donald. Hopefully the billion-dollar conglomerate QA on many banks and made several appearances on the Forbes 400 and yet he's never forgotten what life can be like for first generation immigrants like his dad about 1989, 1991. Omaha became apparent that there were very educated foreigners came to this country.

They were licensed educated doctors, dentists, lawyers, foreign country may come here licensed proficiency with language so I can sit for test language.

At that point time so that came to my attention.

Omaha so Sue and I decided that we will remember these people say like 100. I'm not sure so we started shows a second language so that we got these people somewhat proficient in this language and it works so people difference it was for jewelry store takes a qualifying exam this slices same thing with lawyers and errors. It was a very successful program to help people help themselves.

Give them the tools to succeed really felt good about small compared to what so after we moved here in 1991.

We decided that we're trying to do that in a much more systematic way.

We signed up with the University of Denver do that to go away so we provided money. We provided computers.

We comprise whatever we needed to provide this. I have money people was so thankful so gracious about expressing cells as we help them get started country in their own profession was a lot of motivation so it's always with me that my father never had that he came over and was left never had the chance of going to school at the time of our interview.

Donald was nine years old and he still come to the office each day. I don't want to retire as I don't want to feel like I have nothing left in my life I have a lot in my life now I feel like I'm 40 I know physically that I'm no longer 40. I know that there's a termination along the way. Here Michael live forever yours but I want to use my brain and take medication.

Whatever I need to stay alive stay viable continue to see my kids grow physically and intellectually. Businesswise, nieces spend time mentoring is so boring to be contained in your apartment. People like me.

I'm supposed to go the office stay home and do what I so I want to continue to do what I'm doing.

My doctors tell me out chronologically my age might be tells so I have a lot to look. I have a little Jim in my apartment across the workout every morning. Every morning I'm on the floor for at least 30 exercise, stretching whatever lease for maybe five times a week in the afternoons on weekends during the morning. I worked like recumbent bike weights do things like that that takes so I try to keep myself reasonably good shape at this age I can go as far as the other thing you need to do is sell yourself what you saw just adjusting to things that happen over your environment is so important and not be out of the cat. I can't talk a basketball so I can't be used as an example. So continue I wanted to do something I still want to figure out how I get out of the house. My wasting steps when I was five years old. I was always concerned about how I do things better quicker. I still have. I think I still do I still get my mind is running unless I have to have to have to have to make a decision on something that's part I want to notify through this, but if I think about something, something about most of it is I just I just think is much listening to Donald Sterman.

What a unique voice and memory well it runs deep and he remembers what his own father went through in his own parents went through coming to this country. I do my parents but with my grandparents. I saw the language barrier did my own grandparents and they insisted that not happen to the wrong kids, Great American dreamers voice and in the end, Great American dreamers story and only so many of our American dream is grateful and always generous Donald Sturm story here on our American store millions will make Medicare coverage decisions for next year and UnitedHealth care can help you feel confident about your choices for those eligible Medicare annual enrollment runs from October 15 through December 7. If you're working past age 65. You might be able to delay Medicare enrollment. Depending on your employer coverage. It can seem confusing, but it doesn't have to be UHC Medicare health plan's.com to learn more United healthcare helping people live healthier lives. Everything about running a coffee shop concerned me. My State Farm agent and company.

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I went to a very small private Christian school and we were all very close because it was the town and that made things easier because when in years old my life, sorry, becoming an ordinary I was at my best man's house time and like most kids, no doubt, that are outside playing in the fields and we had been cleaning her barn all day, and man we decided that I am attracted now for a few years and whenever Taylor started playing on whether they got caught in the railing on the top of the tractor so when I start to fall caught myself on the lot power was hanging on the side of the and then let's keep me with $10,000 electricity electricity exit from my back shot out of my hands completely killed my right arm in my left hand and my friend sat down watch the whole thing. She was 19. I noticed it was very hard for her to witness her mom called and took down to get there about to get my hands off the pound because I was knocked unconscious so farmhands can never and finally got me down. I went to been when and I would not have been grounded expired out of my feet and arms and back and that would have killed me. So ultimately the right dates are what saved my life.

I waking up was Claudia, please God and looking around and seeing anybody and by screaming and breaking out crying and said that confused me because I had no idea what happened and they got me out and tempo and then it was like a light switch went out and waking up. I might later then the Mississippi to the buyer in this silly right arm, and man the next morning I was flying to Cincinnati and I try to save my left hand and just kept making wires at a little bit like Albert, I was having surgery every single day twice a day after almost a month and 1/2. I finally was good enough to have to go home pressure comments to keep my wings still said it was like a skintight outfit that was found my knees up to my Mac all day every day, then said I got home from the hospital letters and sent me my floor that I slowly found a way to get onto the ground and all about us that we face plant onto the floor being so young was really scary because I was like my gosh anything again. Then my leg jumped on the bed and snapped.

That was because electricity exit had caused him on fractured femur was displaying the break was a little place.

I was a wheelchair for a week and still had school when my friends first saw me some of them were were excited to see me because they're happy now the laptop but there also scared the same time because we were so young you had never experienced anything like that is really different. My friends adjusting to being around me now so what I need help with night when was the right time to ask for help meditation to line steps. I well when I was younger because I didn't want my friends and I want to be around me because this will make this and whenever we're located at the anointing which would be a kid there and help your friend did everything that I just taught me to stuff myself for almost a year after the accident literally could do nothing for myself that I had to get everything my hair rushing me close eating, showering, everything after that. I was just like you have to figure it out like this for us. My mom everything. It was obviously very difficult relearning everything try to figure out life again at such a young age by slowly things just finding a place obviously our big mission was to find prosthetics from a socket start learning to use them and we getting to prosthetics. This went on and looked very realistic, but the thing is we got onto them home everything and we had to find the process of paying for them and some which I get the insurance and not us and said that hands were not medically necessary so things are really difficult with your schedule and take him away from eyes that when I went to pay for their very expenses that took a long time but finally got the prosthetics and found some I like to wrap was comfortable with line to do just about every single thing that it was way harder to rely on the prosthetics because then it was like starting back at square one that I do still have prosthetics have a right arm and left hand and they are currently in the bottom of my closet, and they have been for the past three and half years. Another reason I really don't use them is because they are extremely heavy and it's not a very comfortable feeling arm is really squished in their loose circulation fall asleep in my right side itself to fight arm hanging off my shoulder, made of metal and said it's really having my shoulder starts cramping. That's my friends will tell you it's just weird thing. One time my friend and our house and she wanted to see me at my prosthetics on the pastor walked out with them on and put tears in her eyes because she never seen me with arms before and such as a completely different person. You're saying I just wasn't supposed to have arms and tell my friends know that you're listening to medicine AC tell her story. Oh my goodness thing to happen at the age of 10 to wake up. A month later and really understand the gravity of that live the rest of your life without arm was in her voice when I know soon that she made it through my goodness. Put yourself in her shoes and always we like to do these things and telling stories because the obstacles Americans overcome each and every day. Humans overcome their own perseverance and grit is just remarkable goodness that she said at a certain point at this young age to have to figure these things out for myself and my mom, doing everything from goodness to hear from an insurance company hands are medically necessary. How absurd. But in the end.

Madison agreed. Her story continues here on our American story millions will make Medicare coverage decisions for next year and United healthcare can help you feel confident about your choices for those eligible Medicare annual enrollment runs from October 15 through December 7. If you're working past age 65. You might be able to delay Medicare enrollment. Depending on your employer coverage. It can seem confusing, but it doesn't have to be this UHC Medicare health and's.com to learn more United healthcare helping people live healthier lives. I know everything there is to know about running a coffee shop for small business insurance.

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Toothbrush. That's how you do everything on this is not cuff driving was one of the scariest things to learn a new obviously but it was never really a difficult thing to do all his thoughts because that's the one thing I did not know how to do before I lost my learning to drive with half an arm was the only way I knew that I just went on during high school basketball and I was a chilly air. I did try to travel and the opportunities to get to the Bethany Hamilton Retreat, California every year starting in eighth grade retreat. PT to get together and just behind the Bethany symmetry has been the experience of my life is honestly so grateful PT. Everything about it comes in is completely different story. A lot of kids without lambs expand as friends. I met there. He lost her hand when she was three years old. She put me kinder that she's not just awesome to hear all stories like this. Sit back and laugh about it because we've all been there, stuff like that is always interesting meeting in amputees and seeing how they did things and how soon we would be all comfortable around each other but sometimes I'm more comfortable around friends with arms and all their lambs because it's not as intimidating as crazy as that sounds. When you around the little girl is there everything I want to run a PT you're saying how different every guy does everything it just overwhelms you like doing this wrong, this functionality doing it like this. This window has one hand she can make two fingers to finger and said leave your brain you try to get all these things in ways he saw frustrates you because you feel like you're having to get step one. I love all my friends. I would trade them for the world does get overwhelming, like feeling like you're doing things wrong because you're not in the same way they are the only PT I feel like I'm doing everything that I am especially doing it because that's my natural way of doing it versus their natural way of doing that is way more people that look at her waiting average and that she just gives good advice on how to get people back to you and just to keep faith in God because he's done this to us for purposes of member's in the hospital, on and one night her battles her bed and turned 11 plans are happy to close Lord is to possibly not to give you hope future and it's just literally what has gotten me everything because God has a plan for me. He knows what he's done with my life. He doesn't make mistakes. This is a purpose for me and his purpose was spread to others. Anything that he doesn't do this punishing to prayer team is that everything has a purpose in life eventually one of the scariest thing that dad always thought about was the boyfriend that was like the biggest airline was never to love him never to get Marion on staff and thinking about taking my kids that's always been something that's been scary because obviously my experience I get scared.

I think that what if I'm stuck being a mom to get my child-mom yet that's like mom's biggest fear and simply like Medicare want to wear rings and stuff it sounds lame but that stuff goes up to Dave and I don't get to do that.

Obviously, at times, I might. This is also it's hard to explain because the mindset that created for myself. I don't get upset because my life would be completely different than it is now. I would not have the plans I have nothing in my life in the same and so it's hard to be upset when looking at it like that. When I got to college is when I first started to really have to do things on my own completely and there is a few things that I just really did not know about myself, but I didn't think I knew how to give myself the first thing was going to brush my hair never done that before, and I figured out how to do it and one day I was going somewhere and of course that she is outlined where the blazes were on Todd that I despair how to do it. I just use my mouth and tie my shoes and there's just so many things I really did not think I was went on and I was forcing myself. It became easier and easier and now I do it myself when I'm in class. Write my notes just like every other student dies. I can let my backpack Mrs. Bassett real estate enemies are the first person the rain in school. I don't delay deafening buddy else after I graduate college in the spring. I'm getting to attend an online school to get my interior design license and become hoping interior designer and I would like to remodel houses. That's my favorite thing to do, but it's also a job that I can physically do most of the stuff is done on the computer is makes it really easy for me to physically belt have interior design job. There is almost no job I can do right now at this age without a degree that it's very upsetting when you're told that hands aren't necessarily so don't qualify for disability and staff are people out that get it just any excuse they take. I would love anything to building about Mark. I sit at home being lazy. I can't stand it. But as always I go. The cashier release picture change back at you because I mean yeah there's things just ascend back and do something about how it actually do it. The simple grammar they have in life and I don't appreciate that you have always say life is about what you've lost about what you have just help people understand get up and move on with her life because life a purpose not wasted.

I've ended up having really a pretty extremely life just physically look different than everybody else, have been very fortunate people that could care less and somehow the time they complete forget that hands and it's really refreshing to hear. Even though my life has not turned out anything like I would have expected literally would not trade my life by the world.

I felt that I was handpicked by God to be in a PT to show others that you can do anything you put your mind to. The main thing I've learned is if you want something you can achieve your circumstances so I just very thankful to be in a PT because it helps me stand out in ways that others may not inspire others to achieve the goals they want throughout their life and thanks to our own medicine medicine Martin bring us the story of medicine also happens to be Madison's friend. What a story story we can all learn from the sentence. I am grateful to. Don't let negative people affection. She said she also pointed out that her faith in God should put it got me through everything by the show regularly from people suffer great adversity and we don't go looking for that answer.

We don't think that's a different lesson so many of the storytellers after when she said these words will start crying.

Scariest thing she said the biggest fear I have taken yes and yes to both Madison and she story a story of courage of grit of resilience, of faith on our American stores. Medicare covered decisions for next year and United healthcare can help you feel confident about your choices for those eligible Medicare annual enrollment runs from October 15 through December 7.

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