There's a wide flat valley, nestled between the Pine Dot Mountains and the majestic rise of the Sierra Nevada.

If you drove up through that pass, you'd be gazing on Lake Tahoe, but in the valley,

it's a small desert town called Minden Nevada.

Just off the highway north of town is the Minden Tahoe Airport,

and the spotless hangar where Rob Boughton had built a business and made a reputation as one of the finest aircraft mechanics in the whole valley.

He was just totally meticulous about everything he did.

And yet Rob himself was afraid to fly.

You call me up and up to go on a test flight tomorrow, I really don't want to go.

Rob's business thrived.

He bought his dream house with a white picket fence and a sweeping view of the mountains.

That was like his pride and joy.

His sister Barbara, just like Brother Tim, had about given up on the idea that Rob would ever have a family.

And then when he found Karen, you know, I knew he'd fall in love.

Karen?

He met her at the airport.

She'd gotten a job fueling airplanes.

And his Karen's daughter Katie remembers it.

She had never seen her mom so happy.

He was the most amazing guy that my mom had ever met.

They moomed over each other for a year or so.

And then in the summer of 2000, Rob and Karen got married.

And she and Katie and her three other teenage children moved into that house with a white picket fence and the view.

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