A 72-year-old woman is setting out to finish a degree she started years ago.
After her husband died in 2005, Anniatha McMillan decided to enroll at Robeson Community College to fulfill a commitment she made to herself.
McMillan remembers the day she lost her husband and almost lost her own life two decades ago.
She and her first husband were in a tragic car accident in Onslow County, North Carolina. The wreck claimed her husband’s life, while authorities were able to save McMillan’s life and pull her to safety after prying open the top of the vehicle.
Related: ‘Everyone Was Quite Impressed’: 9-Year-Old College Student Teaches NASA Scientists ‘More Than One Thing’ During Tour, Stumps Them with His Brilliance
“There was an explosion, and I had to be pulled out of the car,” McMillan said. She added that authorities had to cut the top off the vehicle and that “somehow, I made it out alive,” McMillan said in an interview with the college’s website.
The senior citizen says she invested her life into the church and during the COVID-19 quarantine was divinely inspired by a message from God that said, “I’m changing things.”
According to McMillan, God started changing things in the then-widow’s love life. She met a farmer and the two of them got married.
Her new husband provided a new home for the woman, where she could relax and take up hobbies, but after a while she got bored.
“I stay busy working in my flower garden. I used to go to the doctor to complain about my knees, joints, high blood pressure and I’d go home, sit down, and got bored, I thought, I got to do something, I’m just wasting away,” McMillan said.
Out of that boredom, the second change to come to her life was the return to college to complete a degree she started years ago.
“I would get off work, go to school, and then I would stop,” she said. “So I thought, maybe I’m not too old, I could still get my degree, and so I…
Read the full article here
