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Battle Lake woman answers sister's prayers by carrying her child through surrogacy ANDOVER, Minn. - On a quiet family camping trip along Minnesota's Rum River, surrogacy might seem like odd topic to come up. Five years later, sisters Kari Thorp of Andover and Tara Bladow of Battle Lake, Minn., can't seem to remember who even br... Written By: news@parkrapidsenterprise.com | × Tara Bladow, right, carried baby Gavin for her sister, Kari Thorp, who had a hysterectomy while in high school. Laurel Sexton Photography ANDOVER, Minn. - On a quiet family camping trip along Minnesota's R...

What's chapter number 2? >> i'll sit at home and type. i'm going to rediscover lunch. i'm going to rediscover weekend. >> and once again put his pen to paper to encapsulate a remarkable career and then to keep on living. >> what's the first line of that memoir? you may not have written it. but what would it be? >> i was born on august 7th, 1942 in dr. marks maternity hospital on ferry street in minnesota, where the rum river flows into the mississippi. ♪ >> when garrison keillor walks off that stage for the last time this july, he will be succeeded by chris feely. from all of us from the gre...