You see a lot of his personality, which is the reason I married him. I was so afraid it wasn't coming back, but it's there.

We're just going to wait until he basically comes around completely before we come out and tell him, you know, that he's the only one.

Today will be two months since I left my house that morning and I haven't been back since.

He hasn't asked. He's mentioned [the explosion]. He said it was a tragedy. [But] I don't want to push him. We'll need to sit down and I'll ask questions when [he indicates] he's ready.

If he was strong enough to pull through 41 hours in the mine, he's strong enough to pull through this.

They weren't just pals working together; they were actually family down there.

It wasn't really looking, kind of a fog, but I remember looking and it was good. I didn't know if I'd ever get to see his blue eyes again.

We're going to have one big family vacation, something we never could do before because it was always work in the way or something in the way.

He's mentioned safety to me several times but he didn't want me to worry. We had discussed him getting out. He just wanted to get into another career and let the mines go. It was too dangerous and simply wasn't worth it.