Dying Dad Returns To Room After Daughter’s Wedding To Rest, Comes Back To Make Good On Dance Vow

Jan 15, 2019 by apost team

When Mary Bourne Roberts was a little girl she and her father Jim would dance around the kitchen to the hit 2000 song "I Hope You Dance." The Lee Ann Womack song is special for many, but it seems to have really struck a chord with Mary.

The two would dance around the kitchen to the song as she was growing up. The song became so attached to Mary as a person that a promise was made between her and her dad that they would play it at her wedding for her father-daughter dance.

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Since then Mary decided to make dancing her career. She majored in dance at the University of Alabama and now teaches at a dance academy. When she was set to be married it seemed like all would be falling into place.

Little did anybody know that tragedy would strike. In May 2017 Jim was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an incurable brain cancer that just before Mary's December 29th wedding Jim had entered hospice care. It was uncertain as to whether or not he'd even make it to her marriage.

Not wanting to disappoint his daughter Jim managed to make an appearance. Even though he used a wheelchair, he held her hand as they two went down the aisle to the altar. He stayed for the marriage ceremony before he had to return to his hotel room for rest. 

Thankfully this rest was enough to re-energise him as he returned for the after-party. He arrived just in time for the father-daughter dance, and lo and behold, what else would play but "I Hope You Dance." What followed was simply unforgettable.

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