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In a supermarket, Kurtis the stock boy, was busily working when a new voice came over the intercom asking for a carry out at check register 4. Kurtis was almost finished, and wanted to get some fresh air, and decided to answer the call.

As he approached the check-out stand a distant smile caught his eye, the new check out girl was beautiful.  She was an older woman (maybe 26, and he was only 22) and he fell in love.

Later that day, after his shift was over, he waited by the punch clock to find out her name.  She came into the break room, smiled softly at him, took her card and punched out, then left.

He looked at her card, BRENDA.  He walked out only to see her start walking up the road.

Next day, he waited outside as she left the supermarket, and
offered her a ride home.  He looked harmless enough, and she accepted.

When he dropped her off, he asked if maybe he could see her again, outside of work.  She simply said it wasn't possible.  He pressed and she explained she had two children and she couldn't afford a baby-sitter, so he offered to pay for the baby-sitter.  Reluctantly she accepted his offer for a date for the following Saturday.

That Saturday night he arrived at her door only to have her tell him that she was unable to go with him.  The baby-sitter had called and canceled.  To which Kurtis simply said, "Well, lets take the kids with us."

She tried to explain that taking the children was not an option, but again not taking no for an answer, he pressed. Finally Brenda brought him inside to meet her children.

She had an older daughter who was just as cute as a bug, Kurtis thought, then Brenda brought out her son, in a wheelchair.  He was born a paraplegic with down syndrome.  Kurtis asked Brenda, "I still don't understand why the kids can't come with us?"  Brenda was amazed. Most men would run away from a woman with two kids,
especially if one had disabilities.  Just like her first husband
and father of her children did.

That evening Kurtis and Brenda loaded up the kids, went to dinner and the movies.  When her son needed anything Kurtis would take care of him.  When he needed to use the rest room, he picked him up out of his chair, took him, brought him back.  The kids loved Kurtis.  At the end of the evening, Brenda knew this was the man she was going to marry and spend the rest of her life with.

A year later, they were married and Kurtis adopted both of her children.  Since then they have added two more kids.  So what happened to the stock boy and check out girl?

Well, Mr. and Mrs. Kurt Warner, now live in St. Louis, where he is the quarterback for the St. Louis Rams who will be playing in  Superbowl  XXXVI this weekend.

Author Unknown

After uploading this page I received the following disclaimer published by INSIGHT OF THE DAY.

My apology. There were a number of truths...and inaccuracies...in the Friday Morning Story.  Kurt and Brenda Warner are in love, they have four wonderful children, and he is an OUTSTANDING quarterback
and person.  However, they did not meet in a supermarket nor did Zachary have Down's Syndrome nor is he a paraplegic confined to a wheelchair.

The truth however does make for an even greater story.

When Kurt and Brenda first met, he was a student at the University of Northern Iowa and she was completing her nursing training with the help of student loans and food stamps.  As recorded in his  autobiography, "Keep Your Head Up," Kurt describes their first encounter in 1992 when a football teammate talked him into going to a country-music club, Wild E. Coyote's, in Cedar Falls, Iowa.

There was an instant connection, but Brenda didn't know whether it would last.  Not only was she a single mom, but one of her two children, her son Zachary, had significant medical problems.

Zachary was a perfectly healthy infant, but when he was four months old, his father dropped him and he suffered severe brain damage and both of his retinas were ruptured. His recovery was long and arduous, but he now walks and talks and is integrated for half-days in a regular seventh-grade class.

After their initial meeting they began a long and loving
relationship which resulted in their marrying five years later in 1997.   Kurt then adopted Zachary and his younger sister, Jesse, and since then have added two more children, Kade in 1998 and Jada in 2001.

Kurt began his professional football career in 1994 when he
joined the Green Bay Packers as a free agent.  He tried out, was signed, and then was cut by them that same year.   His celebrated job at a grocery store took place right after he got pink-slipped by Green Bay.   He returned to Cedar Falls and worked nights stocking shelves for $5.50 an hour to make ends meet.

He then played in the European leagues for a few years until he was able to schedule a try-out with the Chicago Bears in 1997.   However this had to be cancelled when on his honeymoon just before the tryout, a venomous spider bit him on his throwing arm.

But his persistence paid off, later in 1997 he was signed by the St. Louis Rams as their third-string quarterback.  In the 1999 preseason he got his chance when he stepped in to replace the injured Trent Green and began almost immediately to rewrite Rams' history.

He rose to fame by throwing a record 414 yards in his 23-16
Super Bowl XXXIV victory over the Tennessee Titans and being named that contest's Most Valuable Player which capped an astounding 4,353 yard, 41-touchdown regular season that won him the league's Most Valuable Player honors.

After the Rams victory in the NFC Championship game in 2000, 10 year old Zachary presented Kurt with a homemade card done in Ram's blue and gold. Inside, in childlike scrawl, it read: "You're as good a dad as you are a quarterback!"

As you can see, falling in love with and then marrying a gal
who had two children, one of them a special needs child, was just part of this most remarkable story.  Kurt Warner has become known for his commitment to his family, his clean-kid lifestyle, and his Christian faith.

Brenda and he now live in St. Louis with their four children
and he is the founder of the First Things First Foundation at http://www.firstthingsfirstfoundation.com.

In Super Bowl XXXVI on Sunday, February 3rd, Kurt Warner will again lead the St. Louis Rams in their quest for another Super Bowl victory.  Perhaps on that day yet another chapter of triumph will be written in this man's life.  But win or lose, Kurt Warner has already written his name in football history and has made it known again that "Good Guys Can Finish First."

Thanks to Sandy Pofahl for the correction.
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