“When I was a kid, I didn’t know what I was going to do in life. I didn’t even know if I was going to be able to live life the way we grew up. Life for us is like right now, we didn’t even look at tomorrow. So once I got past that hump in life, I realized, now I got to make a life for myself. Once I realized I had to do something positive with my life, I dedicated my life to it. We lost a lot to gain what we gained. It was about making the right choices. It’s the easiest, but one of the hardest things to do to make the right choices. I ain’t [sic] never thought we could be where we at. I ain’t [sic] never thought we would actually live this long. I ain’t [sic] ever think we could be successful in life. But I took the chance and it all paid off. We worked hard, and we still work hard to be at this level of life. That takes more work than it took to get here, but we appreciate the work part of it, that’s what we like.
