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#1 By the time Wayne and Kelly held their newborn sons in their arms, the couple had been married for five years. Kelly had suffered through multiple miscarriages and months of tedious and painful fertility treatments. Everything changed in 1997, when she got a phone call from her cousin Sarah, who was in trouble and didn't want to have an abortion.

#2 Kelly's family was extremely open about the fact that they had come into the world in what some people once referred to as the bastard way. They didn't believe in men being superior to women, and they didn't follow the rules or behave in socially acceptable ways.

#3 Kelly began to take classes at a community college in Huntington Beach, California. She eventually received an associate's degree in art, though she never formally graduated. She then moved to Chicago and began working as a environmental consultant. She met Wayne Maines at a seminar in West Virginia, and they eventually moved in together.

#4 Wayne Maines, who was born in 1958, grew up in the village of Hagaman, New York. His father, Bill, worked in a carpet mill in Amsterdam, New York, and commuted thirty miles each way to Saratoga for a job at General Foods. His mother, Betty, worked different jobs to keep the family fed.