Barbara Kelly and Dale Wilson were destined to unite. How could a person feel otherwise when their family histories wove through WWI, The Great Depression and WWII, before fate allowed them to meet?

They were a frenzy of contrasts. None of it mattered. Their differences were glue, binding them together instead of forcing them apart.

What was it about this unlikely couple that allowed them to create and raise 13 successful children through the upheaval of an evolving America? The answers are a revelation.