Pam Shrum

51 years together this June we still love, hold hands lift one another up. We talked to one another, share our dreams with one another .

Placed 36th

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How did your love story begin?

It all began when I was 14 years old. Jim was 15. I had gone to spend a week out of state with my Grandmother, who made me go to Church with her. We walked into her Church that morning and this 15 year old saxophone player was on the platform playing gospel music. Our eyes locked when I walked in. I asked my grandmother who he was and she said oh honey he loves the Lord so much and they call him little Jimmy. I told her “well the Lord just told me he was going to marry me “ now I’m and I just

What is your favorite memory you've shared as a couple?

How we met and how he has taken such great care of me. How he’s always holding my hand. How we always tell one another how much we are in love. My precious husband is has always said, “darling, I can’t get you everything but I can get you anything on this menu that you want” lol. Our family grew up poor, little food, military father and when my husband found out that we used to go to school with hunger pains, he actually cried. He said he’ll never be hungry again. We haven’t been..

What would you do with $20,000?

Well, I’ve just helped my mother through skin cancer, I’ve got two siblings that have been diagnosed with multiple myeloma within two years apart, my mother-in-law has lived with us for 25 years now. I’m thinking I would do what needs to be done at this age to help all of us out.

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