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'It's something the world needs': Middletown hospital wedding offers family bright spot amid grief of loss
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Sara Estela, the youngest daughter of the late Juan Estela, who died Monday, was married to her husband Michael Krystek at Middlesex Hospital in Middletown Saturday by her father’s bedside in the ICU. Her family knew he had only days, or even hours, to live. Her father was admitted with congestive heart failure on Christmas Day, and was later diagnosed with kidney failure, stage 4 multiple myeloma and prostate cancer.Contributed photo / Alyssa BroeShow MoreShow Less
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Sara Estela of New Britain is seen at the bedside of her father Michael Juan Estela of Middletown at Middlesex Hospital following her wedding ceremony. Despite his terminal state, she and her sister Alyssa Broe heard their father, who died who days later, marvel at being able to be there, they said.Contributed photo / Alyssa BroeShow MoreShow Less