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\"download\"<\/a>On December 23, 2016 David Mosher proposed to his girlfriend, Heather Lindsay, during an evening carriage ride. Just hours previously, Heather, a school psychologist, had been diagnosed with breast cancer. \u201cShe didn\u2019t know I was going to propose that night,\u201d David said. \u201cBut I said to myself, she needs to know she\u2019s not going to go down this road alone.\u201d When their carriage passed under a street light, David got down on one knee and asked Heather to marry him.<\/p>\n

The couple had met roughly a year and a half previously at a swing dance class they were both attending. \u201cWe were just kind of inseparable after that.\u201d Unfortunately, the newly engaged couple would not have the long future they both envisioned. Just a few days after David popped the question, Heather\u2019s cancer was identified as triple negative, one of the most aggressive forms of breast cancer.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe would go to Dana Farber weekly, we were going to natural doctors. Our life became consumed with cancer,\u201d David said. The all-encompassing hunt for a cure for Heather was unsuccessful, and in September 2017, Heather and David learned that the cancer had spread to Heather\u2019s brain. She was put on life-support and told that she would be unlikely to live to see October.<\/p>\n

Heather, however, had different plans. Her wedding date was set for December 30, 2017, and Heather was determined to live to see it. \u201cShe was tough,\u201d David said. \u201cAnyone else would have given up a long time ago. The doctors even said \u2018we don\u2019t know how she\u2019s still here.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

At the doctors\u2019 recommendation, David and Heather moved the ceremony up by two weeks because Heather was unlikely to survive until December 30. On December 22, 2017, the Moshers were married in Saint Francis chapel in front of their family and friends. Heather was weak enough that she struggled to articulate her vows, but she persevered and successfully became David\u2019s wife as she had been dreaming of for nearly a year.<\/p>\n

Christina Karas, one of the bridesmaids, captured Heather\u2019s determination and defiant celebration on camera. \u201cWe were losing her as we were all standing there, thinking, to hold on to this, because this was the last she had to give,\u201d Christina said, \u201cThe last words she spoke were her vows.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eighteen short hours later, Heather Mosher passed away on December 23, 2017, one year to the day from when David proposed. \u201cShe\u2019s my great love, and I\u2019m going to lose her, but I\u2019m not losing her forever.\u201d David said. \u201cI saw her in a lot of pain and she didn\u2019t give up until she married me. It is so humbling that someone could love me like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Heather\u2019s funeral was held on December 30, her original wedding date, at Plantsville Congregational Church, the same church where she and David were originally supposed to be married. Despite the agony of loss, David refuses to give up and plans to channel his late wife\u2019s defiant spirit. \u201cHeather said, \u2018I want to keep fighting\u2019 so that\u2019s the mantra I\u2019m picking up,\u201d David said, \u201cShe was able to fight \u2018til the end, I\u2019m going to fight until my end.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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