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| My parents didn't intend to get pregnant so soon after getting married, but they both said that having me filled them with great joy. I think they look pretty happy (and still relatively well-rested) in this photo taken the day I was born. |
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| My hair used to stick straight up, so they nicknamed me Woodstock, as in the little yellow bird that's Snoopy's friend. |
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| Here I am scrunched into a box with Butch and Mimi, my favorite handmade dolls from Nana (my dad's mom). |
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| My sister closest to my age was born when I was 2 1/2. |
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| My sister was a blond cutie pie as a kid. |
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| See! I've always loved books! |
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| Kevin attended all three of my graduations: high school, undergrad, and graduate. This was the last one in Spring 2004. |
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| On September 4, 2004, Kevin and I got married at Church of the Epiphany in Richmond, Virginia. |
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| One week after we got married and had gone up to Rochester to see Kevin's parents, I began nannying for "my two little guys." |
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| Kevin and I have often joined our favorite pro-life advocate Ann Niermeyer (my mom) to pray during 40 Days for Life campaigns. |
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| We said goodbye to my dad, James Niermeyer, who passed away on August 10, 2009. |
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| After Kevin served on a Cursillo team when John Baab was a candidate, the three of us became best friends, more like siblings. It wasn't long before Kevin and I were unofficially adopted into the Baab family clan. |
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| Here are some other favorite siblings in Christ we'd often spend time with: Chris, John Baab, Michele Morris, Christina, Jeff & Laura Stapleton. |
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| My mom (Ann Niermeyer) and her mother (Marilyn) are the strong women of faith who taught me the most about respecting the sanctity and dignity of life from womb to tomb. |
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| Can you see the family resemblance? |
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| Here the "three silly sisters" and I are snuggled up reading. |
