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| From Brookville, Ohio (videos are also at link):
Sunday, April 27, 2008
When Heather Grill Gruber was 17, her biggest fear was not waking up.
At 21, her biggest fear is the same as any other person her age. “I’m scared that I won’t make anything out of my life,” she says.
That’s the difference weight-loss surgery — and 280 lost pounds — can make. Even her fears have become ordinary.
Lounging on the couch listening to music was once her favorite activity; now it’s taking long walks in the park with her husband of five months, Sanford Gruber.
“It’s a Cinderella story,” said her aunt, Danetta Brubaker of Brookville. “On her wedding day I was just ecstatic she was still with us. It was a miracle day.”
At times the wedding resembled something out of a TV sitcom. The justice of the peace, Brookville Mayor David Seagraves, kept getting lost on the way to the Memories banquet hall in Huber Heights, calling every few minutes for fresh directions.
A button came loose on the lace jacket of Heather’s wedding dress, with the bride calling out, “Does anybody have a safety pin?”
But nothing ruffled her deep-seated happiness as she prepared to marry Gruber, the man she met at the home of a mutual friend in July 2006.
“I’m wearing a fairy-tale dress and I’m about to marry the man of my dreams,” she declared. “So nothing else matters.”
Brubaker calls her niece “an old soul” whose long experience as a social outcast has made her mo ... |
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