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this is a story coming from my friend and it is a very true, and very heartfelt.

I had this really close friend I’d known him since i was three . One day he got diagnosed with lung cancer which is normally curable but they found it so late in the game that keimo wouldn't send it into remisson. Soo all around my town the started setting up donation thins at like papa murphies and pogys and my youth group (he was a counsler) for jb's ( that’s what everybody called him ) medical blils cause his family was poor and he needed a bone marrow transplant. He was okay for a long time. Then they went back for a check-up and the doctor told him the most he had to live was a month so he asked his girlfriend ( Emily) that he had been dating for like 3 or 4 years to marry him. A week before his wedding the cancer really hit him hard. It reduced him to a wheelchair and a oxygen tank. So on august fifth the got married . I helped the day before and the morning to set it up. So Jb came and i hadn't seen for a month so i had no ideea what he would look like. When i saw him it was like somebody had ripped out my stomach then kept punching there. My vison went blurry and i realized that i was crying. Soo they got him ready and then wedding started. they decided to take pictures of the bride and groom together( not planned) so that took almost and hour. By the time they did the i dos he was grey in the face and the had the big oxygen tank on him. The loudest thing we heard him say was i do. When the pastor said you may kiss the bride. If you listened closely cause you hardly hear him talking now you could hear him say "finally". So the wedding ended and jb+ Emily skipped the reception for jb's sake. I took some cake an went home. The next day we got a phone call from Jb's cousins ( their how i met jb he was babysitting me.) That jb had died an hour and forty minutes after he got married.