Savannah Guthrie
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Where did her faith come from?
She grew up in the church, and she grew up Catholic.
But she really, she and my dad really had their own
experience, which we Baptists would have called a conversion experience, you know, when they were married and in their 20s and they had us three kids.
Annie always used to say, God was the sixth member of our family.
My mom is so strong and sure and resolute.
She also is a truth teller and she really doesn't suffer fools.
And, you know, she wasn't one of those moms that, oh, my kid can do no wrong or everything you do is perfect.
And she, therefore, like if she believes in you,
You could take that to the bank.
I used to say, she's a noble creature.
She would just scoff at that.
But she is, and she was.
And I don't know whether to talk about her in present tense or past tense.
But I know where she is.