You might think fame and money would insulate you from hardship. Think again.
Annette Funicello was a dark-haired beauty who stole the hearts of children as a Mouseketeer and, later, the hearts of young men that watched her beach movies.
Within a year of her wedding to Glen Holt, she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. As Robert Petterson writes it, "for 9000 straight days," Glen bathed her, lifted her on and off the toliet, and changed her diapers.
"When asked if it was a burden, he replied, 'How can it be when you love somebody?'"
Writes Pettersen,
"Anyone can carry a burden to nightfall. Heroes get up and do it again tomorrow."
Robert Pettersen
The Book Of Amazing Stories p. 18
Tyndale 2017
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