linkDAVIE, Fla. - Kim Sjostrom wanted a real-life version of the film "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," which played in the background as friends fixed her hair and makeup before her own marriage ceremony.
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But less than an hour after she and Teddy Efkarpides were wed, Sjostrom crumpled in her husband's arms during a Greek song that means "Love Me."
At 36, Sjostrom was dead from heart disease.
The wedding had became a project at Davie Elementary School, where Sjostrom taught first grade. Fellow teachers provided the wedding gown, the flowers and decorations. One of them, an ordained minister, performed the ceremony.
"It was perfect for her," said Dominic Church, the minister friend.
Sjostrom carried blue and white flowers during the ceremony — the colors of the Greek flag — as she exchanged vows with Efkarpides, a 43-year-old carpenter and Navy veteran. They had met three years to the day before the Jan. 19 wedding.
During the couple's first dance, Sjostrom complained of being lightheaded. Efkarpides thought his wife, a diabetic, needed sugar, but she collapsed.
Wedding guests, paramedics and doctors at a nearby hospital were unable to revive her.
She had a previous cardiac episode in her 20s and was a poster child — literally — for juvenile diabetes, relatives and friends said. Efkarpides recalled seeing the poster featuring her on New York subways.
He consoles himself by reading a list of "101 Reasons Why I Love You" that Sjostrom gave him their first Christmas together. "Number 1. You make me smile."
No. 98 is especially difficult: "You're the one I want to grow old with."
Bride dies less than 1 hour after wedding
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Bride dies less than 1 hour after wedding
Man I can't imagine what the guy is going through having your wife of 1 hour dying in your arms.
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Holy shit, that's terrible.
I used to live in Davie, oddly enough. Didn't go to that school though.
I used to live in Davie, oddly enough. Didn't go to that school though.
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This is the guy they want to use to win over "young people?" Are they completely daft? I'd rather vote for a pile of shit than a Jesus freak social regressive.
Here's hoping that his political career goes down in flames and, hopefully, a hilarious gay sex scandal. -Tanasinn
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This is the guy they want to use to win over "young people?" Are they completely daft? I'd rather vote for a pile of shit than a Jesus freak social regressive.
Here's hoping that his political career goes down in flames and, hopefully, a hilarious gay sex scandal. -Tanasinn
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Oh my god. That's horrible. Mang.
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Shit! Man, I didn't think of that! It took Shroom to properly interpret the screams of dying people
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Wow, I couldn't imagine losing a spouse so soon after being joined in matrimony. It's when I read about shit like this that makes me say "There can't be a God." But if there is a god and this was the "will of God" then I hope that the groom kicks God and Jesus Christ right in the fucking nuts in the afterlife. I'll help hold him down and maybe get a shot or two in myself.
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On an unrelated note, I think its awesome that the minister in the story is named 'Church'.
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