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MARICOPA, Ariz., Aug. 20 (UPI) -- A 25-year-old woman says she got married at a hospital in Maricopa, Ariz., after her U.S. Navy boyfriend was seriously injured in a skydiving accident.
Lacey Vollentine said after learning her boyfriend, Timothy Schlappi, was seriously hurt during a parachute-jumping exercise in Eloy, Ariz., she flew from Virginia in time to offer her injured lover a wedding proposal before he went into surgery at Maricopa Medical Center, The Arizona Republic said Thursday.
"He looked up at me and he grabbed my hand," she said of the events following Schlappi's Aug. 10 accident. "I said, 'Baby, do you want to get married now?' He looked at me and said, 'Yes.'"
The impromptu wedding proposal left workers at the nearly Forever Courage House, which houses families of the hospital's long-term patients, with the daunting task of getting a last minute wedding license.
House manager Pete Murtha, a former Marine, told the Republic he was able to obtain the license for the couple in time for their wedding on Wednesday.
"Never tell a Marine that something can't be done," Murtha said.
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