Wife had her own battle

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This was a letter that my wife wrote to talk about her own war she had back home.

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It was 1970 and I was a young girl, at 19 years old, lying in a bed at the local hospital.

“Oh my God, the pain.”

I thought I was going to die during the delivery of my first child. I can’t stand the pain anymore. I was saying a little prayer to get me through this. I said, “I wish my husband was here. I need him. Where is he?”