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A Never-Ending Story B
ob and Barb Kipfer are two people with hearts as big as the outdoors they love. For those that know them, it is hard to think of one without thinking of the other. They are husband and wife, but they are more than that. They are friends, they are a team, they are partners in life. A life well-lived. The first chapter in their book of life begins at Kansas University Medical Center. Bob was a medical student in his first year of patient care on the hospital wards. Barb had just arrived as a newly graduated nurse on her first job.
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During his daily classwork around the hospital Bob took special notice of Barb. One-day, Bob saw her going into a room where nurses went to dump bedpans. He followed her in, closed the door and asked her out on a date. He thought he might get dumped too, but she said yes. They were married on September 4th, 1965, and another chapter in their life had begun. Two years later, Bob received his draft notice and served with the infantry in Vietnam as a battalion field surgeon, which meant he traveled into battle with the troops and worked in field hospitals.
