{"id":13693,"date":"2025-09-19T00:36:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T00:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/readmore.cx\/?p=13693"},"modified":"2025-09-19T00:36:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T00:36:16","slug":"i-was-about-to-marry-a-man-in-a-wheelchair-but-mid-ceremony-the-unthinkable-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/readmore.cx\/?p=13693","title":{"rendered":"I Was About to Marry a Man in a Wheelchair \u2014 But Mid-Ceremony, the Unthinkable Happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"466\" data-end=\"838\">When people ask how we met, I always smile, because it still feels like a scene from a romantic film.<br data-start=\"567\" data-end=\"570\" \/>It was a rainy Tuesday afternoon, and I had ducked into a quiet little caf\u00e9 near my office. The place smelled of cinnamon and coffee beans. 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