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Pat Mercer, Fontaine’s mother and the director of nursing at Joplin Health and Rehabilitation, said Shrader has turned that love into a smile that enriches the lives of others at the center.
“Once you meet Odessa, you love her,” Mercer said. “She makes (everyone’s) day a little bit brighter.” Fontaine couldn’t agree more as he leaned down to hug Shrader in her wheelchair. He said as much as he as enriched her life, she has enriched his so much more. Clinging to the tickets that she calls “her beautiful treasure,” Shrader said she isn’t sure what she’ll say when she meets Lynn next week. She just hopes something comes out of her mouth. “I suppose I’ll tell her that I love her and just hope that I don’t faint,” she said. If nothing else, Shrader said she’ll be singing along with every word of Lynn’s songs, just like she does now. Although Shrader describes herself as “a tough old bird,” she said even she was starting to doubt she would ever see Lynn perform. “When it didn’t happen and it didn’t happen, I thought it was just another one of my dreams that didn’t come true. But now, I could go after I see her and I’d be happy,” she said. 
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