Sun, Nov 22 2009
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Well, I’m proud to be...‘True’ or ‘transplanted,’ Okies celebrate Muskogee ‘People person’ loves connecting people Bankruptcy a horror to live through
Donnie Madewell said he had his home and vehicles paid for before he had to take bankruptcy in 1993. He said you find out who your true friends are when something like that happens. “Most of my friends stayed to help me,” he said. “I remember two weeks before Christmas (Dr.) Gary Lambert and his wife gave me a $1,000 check.” Madewell said he was overcome with emotion and told the Lamberts he would pay them back. “This is a gift,” they told me. That $1,000 was our Christmas,” he said. Madewell had done that before for friends, but no one had done it for him, he said. He was overwhelmed. He said Bob Locke helped him, and so many friends asked what they could do for him. “Dad used to tell me you can count your true friends on one hand —sometimes your thumb. He was always asking why there are more horses’ rears than horses.” Madewell described his bankruptcy experience as “horrible — I would drive by Okie’s and look in the window and see who was there. I was so ashamed. “But God turned it around. And I don’t miss the scrap business.” He said he was willing to talk about it because it might help someone with that same problem. He said he tells someone in that predicament to remember — “they can’t eat you.” Christian experiences are a blessing to him 
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