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  1. Maureen had awful, frequent headaches with light sensitivity so extreme she wore sunglasses indoors. She tried many migraine medicines. None worked. In June 2012, she had a CAT scan. "They saw a mass in front, behind my eyes," she says. Blood work that Friday led to an MRI on Sunday and confirmation that she had a brain tumor. Rushed to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, she had surgery that Wednesday. photos:royal blue prom dresses Tests showed the mass was cancerous. Radiation and chemotherapy began. The chemo made her so sick she was admitted to Riddle Hospital in August. Everyone was kind, but she was especially fond of nurse technician Jim. He initiated their small talk: "Whenever I have [a patient] who is roughly my age, I always ask, 'Where did you go to school?' " recalls Jim, who this fall will become a paramedic. Maureen, who grew up in Boothwyn and is now 29, told him that she attended Cardinal O'Hara High School. Jim, now 33, a Darby native, went to Monsignor Bonner. They discovered mutual friends, and had plenty to talk about when he came by to check her vital signs or draw blood. "She was a sick pup, but we had some kind of connection," he said. "I told her and her dad I wanted to be the one to wheel her out when she was discharged." Jim saw Maureen as a really cool patient. Whenever she saw him, "I admit I got a little feeling," Maureen said. "He is really cute, and he was so nice to me." On discharge day, Jim was needed elsewhere. Someone else pushed Maureen's wheelchair. That October, on one of Maureen's trips for blood work, her mom, Linda, stopped by the nurse's station to deliver thank-you candy. Jim recognized her. "How is Maureen doing?" he asked. "Good," Linda said. "I'll tell her you asked about her." Her mom's report was all the encouragement Maureen needed. "I found him on Facebook, like a stalker." Maureen's electronic message, the obvious effort behind it, and the fact that she was no longer his patient knocked Jim out of professional mode. "That's interesting," he thought. Her profile was interesting, too. Then he saw her status: in a relationship. In that case, Jim figured, a response could wait until he returned from vacation. Maureen interpreted the delay as a not-so-subtle statement: This is not happening. But when Jim returned, they messaged back and forth, talking about current events and life in general, and graduated to off-Facebook conversation, too. They were having a good time. Why had it taken him so long to answer her message?, Maureen asked. A two-week vacation was part of it, he said, but so was the fact that she had a boyfriend. Maureen assured him that the boyfriend was past tense. When Jim said it was feeling like all he did was work, Maureen suggested they go out some time. "I thought I would give it a shot," Jim said. "She'd been through a lot. And she was cute, so, I thought, 'Let's see where this goes.' " Their first date was in late November at Media's Quotations. Maureen told him of her work as a classroom instructional assistant at Media's Elwyn Davidson School, which serves children with special needs. She still works there, now as a community-based integrational specialist. Jim told her about his favorite hobby: men's-league deck hockey. They discovered additional mutual friends. "I liked everything about her, how easygoing she was, her great personality," Jim said. Maureen knew from watching him at his work that Jim was a very good guy. "When we went out, I found out he was also a lot of fun, and very easy to talk to." They've been together ever since. Maureen has regular MRIs and blood work to watch for any signs of a tumor. "I'm good," she says. How does forever sound? Maureen's sisters Linda and Kelly started the Race for Hope to raise money for brain-tumor research in Maureen's honor. The first was held while Maureen was waiting for Jim's Facebook reply. At the second, she introduced him as her boyfriend. They walked the route together, stopping along the river overlooking the Art Museum and Boat House Row to take a picture. "Let's make this our tradition," Jim said. The third annual Race for Hope rolled around in November 2014. They stopped to take a photo at the same special spot. Picture taken, Maureen started to walk away when Jim grabbed her arm. "Maureen," he said. "I love you." Maureen loved him, too, but wondered why he was making this public declaration in the middle of the race. Then he knelt, and she knew why. Her friends and family, who knew what was about to happen, had all stopped walking and running to watch. "When she said yes, everybody around us started hooting and hollering," Jim said. At the end of the race course was a big sign that read: "She said yes!" A few moments after they crossed the finish line, the announcer called Jim and Maureen on stage and announced their engagement. More cheers erupted. Later, while celebrating another successful race and the engagement with family, the couple got a call from 6ABC News. The news team had heard of their story and wanted an interview, which aired a few hours later. It was so them The couple, who live in Aston, had been members of St. Joseph's for a year when they were married there in a traditional Catholic ceremony. Their reception for 204 was held at the Concordville Inn, where lanterns on each table and flowers and linens in yellow, white, and orange created an updated classic look. Rather than a guest book, everyone signed a huge canvas with the couple's wedding date in the middle. Ever since middle school, when Maureen pictured her wedding day, she saw herself and her future husband dancing to Elvis singing "Can't Help Falling in Love." When she suggested it, Jim gave her his best "you've got to be kidding me" look. "I don't like that song," he said. "Why can't we pick something together?' Marriage is about compromise, and Maureen agreed to an alternative song she could live with: Thomas Rhett's "Die a Happy Man." At first-dance time, their DJ announced a surprise for the bride. She recognized Elvis after the first few notes and began to cry, along with most of the women in the bridal party. "It was just one of the great things he did for me," she said. Awestruck Jim knew his wedding day was going to be amazing the moment he saw Maureen, escorted by her dad, walking toward him in her wedding white evening dresses uk. "My whole body went numb," he said. "I bit my tongue because the boys in the wedding party had bet how many times I was going to tear up, so I was trying not to. I failed." Maureen was overcome when she heard Jim saying his vows to her. "I thought, 'We're going to be husband and wife in a minute,' and then, 'Ooooh! We did it,' " she said. Her second-favorite ceremony moment came a second later when the priest told Jim, "You may kiss the bride." Budget crunch A bargain: The Concordville Inn's package included much more for the price than other places they considered, and the staff was happy to tweak offerings at the couple's request.
  2. Impatient shoppers rejoice! Topshop's fall collection, which will be presented at London Fashion Week on Sept. 18, will be immediately shoppable following the runway show. The see-now, buy-now concept, which Topshop is calling their Runway-to-Retail initiative, allows customers worldwide to purchase a "carefully selected edit" — including tailored separates and the finale light blue prom dresses — on Topshop.com and at select Topshop stores (including L.A.'s The Grove location) and retailers. The rest of the pieces from the collection will be available on Nov. 11. This season's runway show will take place at the Old Spitalfields market in London, where Topshop will also host a Sunday pop-up "market stall," post-show, where customers can pick-up their favorites from the collection. In addition to Topshop's stall, Spitaflields will also host a number of pop-ups from both "established and new design talent," which were selected from Appear Here, a digital service which connects brands with pop-up retail spaces. Topshop is one of a number of brands — Tommy Hilfiger, Rebecca Minkoff and Burberry included — showing immediately shoppable, in-season collections this September. Read more:black evening dresses uk
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