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to be a little dull, so I decided to take dancing lessons and
phoned the local dance studio,” he said. “The dance teacher
said she was booked up until nine o’clock that evening. I
told her, ‘That’s all right. I want to get started and will
come back at nine o’clock.’” His dance teacher’s name was
Winnifred “Wyn” Fletcher from Moose Jaw, Canada.^95
Six months passed since the first dance lesson. “When
will you marry me?” Joshua asked Wyn. “Tomorrow,” Wyn
replied without hesitation. Because of the poor financial
conditions, Joshua and Wyn’s honeymoon destination was
a straw patch on Joshua’s parents farm. After the honey-
moon, they moved to a small trailer owned by Wyn.^95
The couple had five children: Scott, Edith Lynne, the
twin-sisters Winnifred Maye and Almeda Kaye, and Angkor
Lee.^95 They couldn’t afford a proper bed, so Scott had to
sleep in an old apple box. But as the chiropractor business
grew, the family moved to a house with three floors and 20
rooms.^94
Joshua was a competent chiropractor with many sat-
isfied customers. “He used the x-ray to determine exactly
where the problem was and then proceeded to give the
correct adjustments,” a co-worker said. “The results were
very good – sometimes almost miraculous.” Like a future
space entrepreneur, Joshua showed a high work ethic. He
could work in the evenings, on the weekends, and if the
customers could not come to him because they were in
great pain, he could treat them where they lived.^93 If they
lived far away, he could fly to see them with his own
aircraft.