Many times when we feel hopeless, God finds a way to remind us that not everything is lost.
For a Tulsa, Oklahoma couple, Sarah and Andy Justice, it was all about having children. It’s not that they weren’t enough for one another, but being parents was one of their biggest dreams. Sadly, they tried to conceive and failed many times, until they decided to adopt.
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The adoption agency connected the couple to a mother-to-be who couldn’t raise a child and wanted to give it to adoption once it was born. Sarah and Andy were by her side throughout the pregnancy and even accompanied her to the doctor’s appointments.
One day, during a regular check-up, they learned something which left them in complete shock. The mother wasn’t carrying a single baby, but three. Almost overnight, the Justices were about to become parents of three.
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However, there was a lot more coming for this family.
When Joel, Hannah, and Elizabeth were born, Sarah and Andy were over the moon. The triplets were born prematurely and needed to spend some time at the NICU, but they thrived and were soon brought home.
Mere weeks following the adoption, the couple learned Sarah was pregnant. She was carrying twins. So, from being unable to conceive, they were now welcoming two more babies into their lives.
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About 8 months later, twins Abigail and Andrew were born, leading to a very, very full house.
Well, the journey towards parenthood was far from over. A year later, Sarah fell pregnant again, this time with a single child, making her and her husband a mom and a dad of six.
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In 2014, the family was invited to share their story on Today Show. Speaking of the days their children were still babies, Andy shared that they used around 300 diapers in a single week.
”As soon as you get one diaper changed, it’s time to start all over again.” But despite the hardship, they regret nothing. “We just love having these children,” Sarah said.
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Aren’t they a beautiful family?
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Best known for his role of the superhero we all love dearly, Superman, actor, producer, and TV show host Dean Cain has had quite a career.
Once he made a name for himself in the film industry, roles came pouring in, and he cemented his place under the Hollywood sky.
However, there was a period in this actor’s life when he found himself at a crossroads when he felt like he needed to make a choice between his professional career or spending more time with his son Christopher, and he eventually chose the letter.
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Dean, who was born on July 31, 1966, in Michigan, has never been in contact with his biological father, who was Japanese. Namely, Dean was just 2 years old when his dad, Roger Tanaka, left the family and never looked back.
A year later, Dean’s mom remarried, and her new husband, director Christopher Cain, legally adopted Dean and his brother. Dean then changed his surname and took that of his adoptive father.
When Dean became a dad himself, when his then-girlfriend, Samantha Torres, a former model and Playboy mate, gave birth to their son, he swore he would never be the type of father his biological dad turned out to be. Instead, he promised himself that he would always be there for Christopher, whom he named after his adoptive father.
Unfortunately, Dean and Samantha split shortly after welcoming their boy and they fought over the custody. Eventually, Dean became a sole custodian.
Dean is a kind of dad who never misses any important events in their children’s life. He even cooks for Christopher. “I cook every meal for my child. If I don’t cook, he doesn’t eat. I cook a very mean steak. I’m also very good at taking the nine leftovers I have and turning it into something,” the actor revealed during an interview.
No matter what comes along the way, whether that is a tempting role or another professional engagement, Dean always puts his son’s needs on the top of the list of priorities.
It wasn’t until Christopher turned 18 that Dean started working on and off the screen again. “I’m there, I’m a very present father, and I would never do it otherwise. I’m blessed to be able to have the ability to do so many different things and yet still be a father first,” he said.
The two are spending plenty of quality time together and are taking a bunch of trips. Christopher has two half-siblings from his mother, Elijah and Isabelle, who often stop by the Chain household.
“I’d do anything for those two. It can be defined as a broken home, but if you hang out at our house, that’s the last thing you’ll think,” Dean said of his ex’s children. “My best day would be just to wake up, and me and my son have a great day at home,” he added.
Ohio father, Chad Doerman, who killed three sons point blank execution style has been arrested and charged with aggravated murder. The boys’ execution was a planned act of murder, according to prosecutors.
The arrest followed after two 911 calls, the first one from a woman screaming “her babies had been shot,” and the second one from a driver who noticed a girl running down the street, saying, “her father was killing everyone.”
When first responders arrived at the scene, the boys were unresponsive. They had reportedly died at the scene.
Doerman admitted the scheme and appeared in court on three charges of aggravated murder Friday. Doerman “confessed to planning and carrying out the deaths of victims involved for several months,” prosecutors said.
He lined his sons up in the yard and shot them execution-style with his rifle. One of the boys tried to escape, but Doerman chased him down and dragged him to the yard where he shut him too. The three victims were aged 7, 4 and 3.
The boys’ mother was found outside the home with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to the hand.
When police arrested the killer who was seen sitting outside on a step. He was detained without incident and now bodycam footage from the Clermont County Sheriff’s Office emerged which shows him saying “Man, I ain’t trying to hurt nobody. I’m completely sober. Never done drugs in my life.” He then tells the deputies, “I’m not trying to hurt you.”
The boys’ mother, whose identity hasn’t been revealed, could be heard speaking in the background and saying, “They’re dead, aren’t they? What do I do?” She then wails, “He took my life from me, my life! They’re so little!”
When asked to roll over to answer their questions, he says “I ain’t gonna hurt you. I ain’t mad. I ain’t nothing,” and then warns them about his dog. He could then be heard asking whether he can stand up because he was “kind of uncomfortable.”
While escorted to the back of the Sheriff’s vehicle, Doerman explains that his step-daughter ran to the fire department and asks for his wallet to be removed from his back pocket to what a deputy answers: “Shut up. You have the right to remain silent, f—ing use it.”
David Gast, chief prosecutor in Clermont County, spoke during the hearing.
“The trauma that this man has inflicted on his family, community, law enforcement, first responders, and all the rest of us is unspeakable. There has been a full admission in this case, the case is still new we’re still discovering facts. But the evil horror of what we know is impossible to process,” Gast said in court. “In an act of incomprehensible cruelty the father that stands before you lined up his three young boys and executed them in his own home with a rifle. In an act of desperation the mother at some point grabbed the gun the father was wielding to attempt to protect them.”
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His bail was held on a $20 million bond, which is the highest amount ever set in the county.
This tragedy that claimed three innocent lives is senseless and heartbreaking. Our thoughts and prayers are with the boys’ mother and sister and the rest of their family.
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Relationships between celebrities don’t always last. However, there are exceptions, and Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell are the perfect proof of that.
They have been together for many years and both believe that the key to long lasting relationship is that they have never tied the knot.
“We have done just perfectly without marrying. I already feel devoted, and isn’t that what marriage is supposed to do?” Goldie told Woman’s Day in 2007.
Today, Goldie and Kurt are not only proud parents of their children they have from previous relationships, but proud grandparents too. They have six grandchildren and love spending time with them and spoiling them. In fact, the couple shares plenty of photos of the little ones and each of them shows just how much love these two have for their grandchildren.
Their grandchildren don’t call them grandma and grandpa but Gogo and Gogi, and we believe that’s very sweet and special.
Kurt and Goldie first met on the set of The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band in 1966. Back then, however, it seemed there was no chemistry between them, probably because of the fact that Goldie was 21 and Kurt was still a teenager. From that movie on, both went on to have extremely successful careers.
After their first film together, Kurt and Goldie both stared in Swing Shift in 1983 and that’s when they started dating. Four years later, they appeared in Overboard.
Fans have been eagerly waiting for the couple to appear in a movie together again but that didn’t happen until 2018 when they played Mr. and Mrs. Claus in The Christmas Chronicles and then reprised the roles again in The Christmas Chronicles 2.
On Valentine’s Day, the couple celebrated 40 years of being together.
“For people like us, the marriage certificate wasn’t going to create anything that otherwise we wouldn’t have,” Kurt told People.
“I don’t know – 40 years isn’t enough to finally say, ‘Well I guess…’”
Goldie added: “Our children got married … Oliver’s very happily married and Wyatt’s very happily married. Katie got married once and that didn’t work, and she’s with this most amazing human and I don’t know if she’ll marry again. The point is that we all tried marriage and sometimes marriage doesn’t work.
“It’s not about the marriage. It’s about the people and the relationship, and the will to stay together. And that’s a big one because if you want it, you can have it. You’ve got to give things up, but the joy and the excitement of being together and touching the toes of somebody at night is really a nice feeling.”
The case of the missing OceanGate Titan which caught the attention of the entire world ended with a tragedy as all of the passengers are presumed dead after it was revealed that the submersible they were in imploded.
Shortly after authorities reported that they had identified debris field near the Titanic, the owner and operator of the hired submersible that had been missing since Sunday, announced Thursday afternoon that the five passengers aboard had died.
“We now believe that our CEO Stockton Rush, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, Hamish Harding, and Paul-Henri Nargeolet, have sadly been lost,” the company said in a statement. “Our hearts are with these five souls and every member of their families during this tragic time. We grieve the loss of life and joy they brought to everyone they knew.”
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS – JUNE 21: Capt. Jamie Frederick of the U.S. Coast Guard, joined by others from the U.S. Navy, Royal Navy and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, gives an update on the search efforts for five people aboard a missing submersible approximately 900 miles off Cape Cod, on June 21, 2023 in Boston, Massachusetts. The Coast Guard is racing to find a submersible with five passengers that went missing during a dive to the wreck of the Titanic. (Photo by Scott Eisen/Getty Images)
It is assumed that the death of the five passengers was immediate following the failure of the pressure chamber in the submersible.
The passengers were British businessman Hamish Harding, OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, French explorer Paul-Henry Nargeolet, Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his teenage son Sulaiman.
The Titan‘s tail cone, which was found approximately 1,600 feet from the Titanic’s bow, was discovered by a remotely operated vehicle from Horizon Arctic, as reported by Rear Admiral John Mauger.
NEW YORK, NY – JANUARY 05: Premier Exhibitions, Inc Director of Underwater Research, P.H. Nargeolet speaks at the Titanic Auction preview at the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum on January 5, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images)
“These men were true explorers who shared a distinct spirit of adventure, and a deep passion for exploring and protecting the world’s oceans,” their statement reads, according to BBC. “Our hearts are with these five souls and every member of their families during this tragic time. We grieve the loss of life and joy they brought to everyone they knew.
“This is an extremely sad time for our dedicated employees who are exhausted and grieving deeply over this loss. The entire OceanGate family is deeply grateful for the countless men and women from multiple organizations of the international community who expedited wide-ranging resources and have worked so very hard on this mission.”
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The passengers paid around $250,000 each for what was supposed to be an eight-day expedition to the wreck of the RMS Titanic. The circumstances of its disappearance are still unclear.
For the victims’ families, the fight may not be over as they would probably sue OceanGate and others involved in the construction of the lost craft.
AT SEA – (—-EDITORIAL USE ONLY â” MANDATORY CREDIT – ” OCEANGATE/ HANDOUT” – NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS – DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS—-) An undated photo shows tourist submersible belongs to OceanGate germi appears on the water surface at a sea. Search and rescue operations continue by US Coast Guard in Boston after a tourist submarine bound for the Titanic’s wreckage site went missing off the southeastern coast of Canada. (Photo by Ocean Gate / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Rest in peace to everyone on board the Titan.
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Matthew Boggs, 34, and his son, six-year-old Grayson, were walking hand in hand in their driveway in Valley Hills when suddenly a lighting strike hit both of them.
Matthew’s older son Elijah was with them while they walked from the bus stop to their home but Elijah separated from them shortly. He recalled the moment when he returned to his father and brother, but was unaware of what could have happened to them.
“I was really scared, I rolled Grayson over and he was kind of smiling a little bit,” 11-year-old Elijah said in an interview. “I thought they were just joking, but when I rolled my dad over the middle of his head was bleeding and his face was already purple.”
The entire incident was witnessed by the boy’s grandmother who rushed to help her son and grandson along with the neighbors.
Unfortunately, the father died on the spot while Grayson was rushed to Baylor Scott & White McLane Children’s Medical Center in Temple.
Once there, doctors didn’t give the family much hope, but they refused to give up and prayed for a miracle. Sadly, that miracle never came.
In order to provide the best fighting chance for sweet Grayson, the family stared a GoFundMe page. They hoped there will be some sort of improvement of his condition, but since that didn’t happen even weeks following the tragic incident which took place on May 15, doctors advised the family to remove life support on June 13.
On May 19, they made an update, “Grayson has sustained a major anoxic brain injury. The doctors said that Grayson may not walk, talk, eat, or possibly see again”. It continued, “What that means for the family, is that when Grayson gets to come home, he will be total care with frequent appointments and therapies.
“Today we had a care conference with Grayson’s healthcare team. The doctors told us, that the state Grayson is in, is how he will remain for the rest of his life,” the update read.
He did remain stable, but his condition didn’t improve. Three days after he was removed from life support, Grayson passed away.
The decision was made by his heartbroken mother Kayla who signed her son up to be an organ donor.
“Please just pray that we keep him comfortable at this time and pray for healing for the family. We may not know what God’s plan is, but we know he has his arms wrapped around Grayson at this time,” Stephanie Burris who launched the fundraising campaign and kept friends and family updated of Grayson’s condition wrote of the decision for him to be taken off life support.
Rest in peace, Matthew and Grayson.
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Indigo, the 2-year-old son of country star Morgan Wallen, was rushed to the hospital following a dog attack.
The dog in question was a rescue dog adopted by Indigo’s mother and Wallen’s ex-fiancée KT Smith who is a social media influencer based in Nashville.
In fact, it was Smith who posted of the attack on the social media along with a series of photos and videos updating fans of her son’s condition.
”Yesterday, he bit Indigo in the face and [Indigo] had to have stitches … we spent yesterday morning at the emergency room,” she began. The boy needed to be stitched up, sadly.
As she shared what happened, most of her followers agreed that the dog needed to be put down as that’s the only right thing to do. Smith, however, broke down in tears and explained that her dog was a rescue dog with a nasty past who suffered a lot of trauma from the previous owners which was the result of its aggressive behavior.
Smith refused to take her dog to a kill shelter.
She shared: ”Since then, we have been looking for options and I just couldn’t bring myself to do what everyone else says and what you’re supposed to do, apparently … what the world tells you to do is to put the dog down because they are aggressive.”
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Shortly after, she posted an update informing her fans that she had found a solution. ”We just dropped Legend off with the sweetest family where he will be living out his full potential and best life on a farm,” Smith shared. “I couldn’t have asked for a better family for him to be loved on by, and they’re East Tennesseans, so we can visit any time we need to.”
This didn’t make many happy and Smith shared how she faced criticism. One of the messages she received said, ”OK no you care more about the f—ing dog than your kid? What’s wrong with you?” to what she replied:
”To be a mom is to care about your child first and find the dog a home away from your kid before they come back into the home. To be a dog mom is to find the best possible home for the dog, knowing that they can thrive in an environment that is meant for them without children.”
Leaving Britain behind and turning to a civilian life seemed like the right decision for the Sussexes who decided toraise their two children out of the spotlight. However, now many accuse the couple of spending too much time giving interviews and publishing books for someone who wanted to be out of the reach of the media.
Besides being devoted parents, both Harry and Meghan are quite busy running their non-profit organization Archewell. “To do something of meaning, to do something that matters. Archewell is a name that combines an ancient word for strength and action, and another that evokes the deep resources we each must draw upon,” a statement by the couple read regarding the choice of name of their foundation.
Harry and Meghan landed contracts with Netflix and Spotify. It has been reported that they received $33.5 million from Spotify. As of Netflix, they will be getting between $1.85 and $3.7 million yearly.
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In January of this year, Harry published his much-anticipated all-tell memoir Spare which sold in a staggering 1.4 million copies on its first day in the UK, United States, and Canada. Spare has been released in 16 different languages worldwide and is expected to be the best-selling book in 2023.
“We always knew this book would fly, but it is exceeding even our most bullish expectations,” Larry Finlay, managing director of Transworld Penguin Random House, said.
“As far as we know, the only books to have sold more in their first day are those starring the other Harry (Potter).”
Spare, along with Meghan and Harry’s Netflix documentary series and the number of interviews they gave to the media, made their reputation among the British people to drop down to 24 percent compared to 80 percent a decade ago.
As Harry was cut-off financially when he left his royal family behind, he and Meghan have been forced to worked their way of making money and supporting their lavish lifestyle. With the deals they made, Meghan’s net worth of around $60 million and the $14 million princess Diana left Harry, one would say they have it more than enough for a lavish lifestyle. However, things aren’t really like that.
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On Thursday, the media group run by Harry and Meghan, Archewell Audio, and streaming giant Spotify announced that they had mutually agreed to end their multi-million dollar contract. Allegedly, Spotify expected more content from Archewell Studios.
Harry and Meghan on the other hand issued a statement saying they didn’t like the idea of distributing exclusively to Spotify. In their description, Archewell Audio’s company says its mission is “producing programming that uplifts and entertains audiences around the world,” as well as “spotlights diverse perspectives and voices. What’s most, they want to build “community through shared experience, narratives, and values.”
Bill Simmons, who founded Spotify and later sold it for around $200 million but now serves as the company’s head of podcast innovation and monetization, called the Sussexes “grifters.”
“I wish I had been involved in the ‘Meghan and Harry leave Spotify’ negotiation. The Fu**ing Grifters, that’s the podcast we should have launched with them,” Simmons said on the Bill Simmons podcast.
“I have got to get drunk one night and tell the story of the Zoom I had with Harry to try and help him with a podcast idea. It’s one of my best stories … Fu** them. The grifters.”
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Back in the day he also criticized the couple, saying, “You live in fu**ing Montecito, and you just sell documentaries and podcasts. Nobody cares what you have to say about anything unless you talk about the royal family, and you just complain about them.”
According to royal editor Angela Levin, the broken deal with Spotify might mean that the Sussexes’ empire is now “crumbling,” adding that any future projects of the couple would be a disaster. “People are fed up with them now,” Levin said.
Another expert, Richard Fitzwilliams, dubbed the end of their Spotify deal a “shocking failure.”
“The idea was that several series would be produced. Since only one was, there’s no doubt the contract could be considered a failure. Clearly this relationship hasn’t been as mutually beneficial,” he said.
“Losing Spotify is a huge blow. How hard we’ll have to wait and see,” Fitzwilliams added. “The collapse of the Spotify deal puts under the microscope the three deals they’ve got – Netflix and Random House. They’ve done remarkably little for Netflix.”
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 16: Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex attend the Ms. Foundation Women of Vision Awards: Celebrating Generations of Progress & Power at Ziegfeld Ballroom on May 16, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images Ms. Foundation for Women)
Speaking of the idea of Harry and Meghan making more “fun” film projects, including romcoms for Netflix, Levin says it’s a “disastrous” idea.
“There was a statement from them that they were no longer going to talk about the Royal Family and now want to stay behind the camera, but that’s a disaster,” she said. No one’s interested in the producer or editor; they want the star. If they put themselves behind the camera, there’ll be less interest.”
“I also don’t think Meghan knows how to do that so she’ll need help, and people find her difficult to work for,” she added.
The Telegraph editor Camilla Tominey believes that now their deal with Spotify is ended, Harry and Meghan will likely turn to publishing another book, something like Spare but on steroids. She adds that if that happens it would pose a threat to the British monarchy.
“The Palace powers-that-be should perhaps be mindful that the more the Sussexes’ earning power recedes, the more dangerous they could become.
“While the Duke may have said all he wants to in his autobiography Spare and accompanying interviews (although he has claimed he has enough material for a second book), the Duchess is clearly still brimming with ‘content’ that is seemingly bursting to come out.”
Tominey continued: “And while a great deal of it can easily be dismissed as word salad, she’s never been afraid of adding a splash of vinegar dressing when discussing her royal relatives.”
“So the Palace’s supporters are celebrating a pyrrhic victory if they think the Sussexes’ de-Spotification is a good thing,” she concluded.
“The more desperate the duo are to land new deals, the more demanding their paymasters may be about the type of content they provide. Think Spare on steroids.”
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