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scrnm aisirirt wan r*Bi ana wrwMan Waits3 Vi Years ForInjured BrideDAYTON, frttto (AP)— GlifistaMoore was a ytnini C*erroan refugee who liked sports and loved a youfig man named Burdette Thomme -i' : viyr§ %On a Mnnmrr’i day in f§55, sheand Burdette went on a picnic to Indian Luke north of Dayton(hrista went swimming. She dove Into a shallow part of the lake ami stria k her head. Het* cuer* polled her out and tf*»k herto a hospital There they told Christa her neckwas broken and that she would lie paralysed the n*st of her life Thomson still wanted to marry her hot Christa said no, not as It ng as she was helpless C hrista remained in the hospital for n year anti a half The girl, who had fled the Kuisiin sector of Berlin in 1®50, took the oath of al leglaitee as an American riti/en while still in the hospitalWhen she was released there he gan a long period of eonvah s ence She leaned to feed herself anti to write again ■Then came a dav when she feltsin would no longer bt complete*ly helpless She knew she probably would never walk again but she could sit in a wheelchair. It had taken M\i years but she feltshe could fare lib* again Tham son had waited for her through those years, Next Saturdayi hrista and Tliomson will he mar ried
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Logan Daily News
Logan, Ohio, US
Wed, Dec 03, 1958
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