NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — A New York City man has gone viral for sharing his story of love and loss on TikTok after the sudden passing of his fiance, bringing together a community of people working through grief of their own.
Jack Ciapciak began taking daily walks along the West Side Highway after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, inspiring his September 2022 proposal to his partner of seven years, Jack Lorentzen.
Ciapciak had noticed benches throughout Hudson River Park that were proposals, and thought it would be a surprising and special way to pop the question. He had a plaque made that said “Jack, will you marry me?,” and the two were quickly engaged.
“Unfortunately, he passed suddenly three months later of an undiagnosed heart condition, and I had to decide, you know, what to do with the bench,” Ciapciak told 1010 WINS. Lorentzen was 30 years old…