Sabra has come full circle back to return to her hometown of Melstone after 40 years. Sabra graduated in 1980 having grown up in the Melstone community. Her parents Roger and Sherri Mack, along with her sister Tamara Wacker, Melstone's Music Teacher, are lifelong music lovers, and Sabra loves to sing, be it in her car or in the Post Office. As I walked in she was jamming to some music.
A life lived to the fullest, Sabra has pursued a career as a beautician, married, divorced, remarried to her childhood sweetheart who made her "deliriously happy", and widowed all since leaving the small, small town of Melstone. As a youth she experienced the highs and lows of teen life all in a small town, having an opportunity to cut a music track in Nashville, and coming back to the social difficulties of teen peer life that so many young people face.
Sabra was working a 120 mile rural route for the post office in the Baken in North Dakota before her husband passed away. She loved this job and would take her dog along and sing the whole way. She was out on the job even when the road department wouldn't go out. The job was a contract position and did not offer any benefits, so she was looking towards a job that would offer some kind of benefits since her husband passed. She applied and got a clerk job but was not close to as happy as the route she had done. She had given her notice and was taking her route back when her father, Roger, called her about the job in Melstone. Sabra is home again. Her father ("he is my person", she says) is 81, and Sabra is so happy to be back near her family again.
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