Chase and Sadie Smith got married a year ago, just days after he learned that the cancer he’d been battling with since he was 13 had spread throughout his body. Doctors gave him between three and five months to live.
His Ewing sarcoma, a rare cancer that occurs in the bones or soft tissue surrounding it, had left his skull and brain full of tumors.
Against all odds, they lived together for eleven months.
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When they sealed their vows on April 29, they were married amid tears and laughter. And they have made an unbreakable promise to each other: to spend every moment of his life together.
Chase and Sadie were married at the entrance of her parents’ house, where they had had their first kiss six months earlier.
They became friends in the senior year of high school. The first time they saw each other was at a swimming gathering attended by the schools they attended. He was a swimmer, she was a diver.
When the doctors made the forecast, Chase told Sadie that he was running out of time and that he didn’t want to spend a minute without her by his side. Sadie told him she thought the same.
For two days, Sadie lay on the bed next to Chase, her head on his chest, and hugged him. They were at his home in Bargersville, Indiana, where Chase wanted to spend his last moments.
In troubled times, as he struggled with pain, he said she helped him comfort him. “I whispered in his ear that everything was going to be fine and that he had won this fight,” said Sadie.
Just before Chase had the strength to speak to Sadie one last time, she whispered, “I know you know how much I worry, but I’ll try not to worry. I love you so much.’
Before he died, it was he who comforted her.
‘He said,’ I love you. Don’t worry, ”Sadie told the IndyStar newspaper.
Chase died on April 4, 2021 in the morning. I was 19 years old.
“I kissed her face and didn’t let go until she walked through the gates of heaven and took her last breath,” Sadie assured.
Comfort hasn’t been easy since then, she admitted.
“I’ve lost half of my heart, my best friend, my everything”, Sadie assured.
“Our love was so deep and passionate that we could never put it into words. Chase was and always will be my soul matehe added.
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In his honor, and because he would have liked it, Sadie competed in the Horizontal League Diving Championship on April 5. He had the highest score in the preliminary leagues and the highest of the season.
Sadie went into hiding exactly 24 hours after Chase’s death.
“I know he’d like nothing more than me,” Sadie said. “If he had failed, he would have been very angry with me. So I went. And I did it for him,” he added.
With information from IndieStar and USA Today.