TEHACHAPI, Calif. (KGET) — Robert Shupe and Marino Callahan had a love that bloomed quickly.
Not even a year after the two met in September 2024, they were set to get married in July. But instead of walking down the aisle hand in hand after kissing his bride, Shupe held Callahan’s hand as he lay in a hospital bed.
“I ended up not going to work because I wasn’t feeling well,” he said. “As it turned out, it was a good thing that I didn’t go in to work.”
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Shupe learned at the hospital that he had suffered a stroke, just days before the couple was set to get married in his hometown of Ogden, Utah, 740 miles from Adventist Health in Bakersfield, California, where he was forced to stay and recover…