Becky Carey and her father, U.S. Air Force Colonel Timothy Carey, had always dreamed of the moments they’d share together on the dance floor at Becky’s future wedding.
Timothy was diagnosed with stage 4 prostate and pancreatic cancers in 2014 and later placed on hospice care. Still, when Becky got engaged in September 2018, they were determined to make the special father-daughter dance happen no matter what.
When it came time for Becky and her fiancé Matt to take engagement photos, the couple decided instead to have Becky and Timothy pose together, and share their father-daughter dance on Oct. 14, 2018,according toInside Edition.
“I had been in chosen denial about how sick he was. We were able to talk and laugh,” Becky toldInside Editionof the dance, recalling that she whispered to her 70-year-old father: “This is just practice and just for fun.”
“He started crying, so of course I started crying,” Becky toldInside Edition. “It was sad but it was also beautiful.”
“Photos are everything you have when people are gone, it’s what we have to look back on to feel that person with us,” Turner toldGMA, describing the dance as “very emotional.”
Timothy died on March 29. Becky and Matt plan to play the video of the father-daughter dance at their wedding this September,GMAreported.
“He fought cancer harder than anyone,” Becky shared with the show. “He should have died at least seven times prior. I know he was holding on for me.”
source: people.com
