Nothing brings family and friends together like a newborn child. When Korey and Sharon Rademacher found out they were expecting, they decided to keep the gender of their unborn baby a secret. But that isn’t the only secret they kept.
When their friends came to visit at the hospital, the Rademacher’s first had each person guess the gender of their baby. Then they revealed something even more surprising: Sharon gave birth to not one but two baby girls!
The couple kept the secret from all of their friends all the way until delivery day, then filmed the priceless reactions. Each visitor was completely shocked when they discovered the twins. The pure joy on their faces truly demonstrates their love for this new family and their happiness for the couple.
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“I promise you I’m not lying,” Korey tried to convince one friend on video chat after revealing the two newborn girls. “You are too lying!” the friend exclaimed, clearly unconvinced. She and her own three children broke into laughter as they accepted the fantastic news.
“No way! You are kidding me!” Another enthusiastic mother exclaimed when the couple revealed the twins to her family. Their wide smiles reveal their astonishment at this heartwarming surprise.
Korey and Sharon admitted to some of their friends that it was hard to keep the secret. A proud mommy wants to share everything about her child and having two only doubled that desire.
The Rademacher family certainly has some amazing and supportive friends. This story reminds us how precious life is, and how valuable it is to have someone to share it with. You can watch the delightful unveiling of this wonderful news for yourself in the video below.
Anders said that he began seeing pennies as a reminder to stop and say a prayer.
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“If I would see a penny when I’m gassing up, on the ground, or in a store, it would be a reminder to stop right there and say a prayer,” Anders said to ABC News. “I never failed to do that. That’s why they had so much value to me.”
At no point during all of his penny-collecting did Anders accept coins as a gift from anyone else.
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“But I never allowed anyone, not even my wife nor children, to give me pennies without being compensated,” he continued. “I wanted the inner satisfaction that God and I acquired this collection.”
“I became convinced that spotting a lost or dropped penny was an additional God-given incentive reminding me to always be thankful. There have been days where I failed to pray and more often than not, a lost or dropped penny would show up to remind me.”
Anders filled big water jugs with the coins he collected.
He said at one point his goal was to fill up 5 giant water jugs but once he had done that, he felt the urge to keep going.
He needed to go to the bank and turn them in or else he’d never do it.
At the time he finally went to the bank, he had filled 15 5-gallon jugs.
“I wanted to fill five five-gallon water jugs. That was the goal, but I couldn’t stop. … If I hadn’t turned them in yesterday, I was not going to stop.”
In addition to the intrinsic value Anders found in collecting the pennies, they also added up to have significant financial value.
After finding out his homeowner’s insurance policy wouldn’t cover his collection, he called the Origin Bank in Ruston, Louisiana, where he had been a customer for years.
Anders let them know he would be coming in with a large number of pennies.
They were happy to help but it was quite the undertaking.
“We value his business, as we do all of our customers,” said the bank’s Vice President Jennie Cole. “But if we can help Anders with his endeavors, we are happy to do so.”