A wife for 5 days

21 year old Katie Kirkpatrick Godwin held off her cancer so she could have her happiest day of her life. She had battled her cancer but it always returned. She had to use an oxygen tank to breath, the pain in the back was so strong it broke though the morphine and her organs were shutting down. Yet all these did not stop her from marrying Nick Godwin who loves her since the 11th grade. Katie got married on January 15, 2008.

Katie Kirkpatrick walks past a photograph of herself when she was homecoming queen at Lapeer East High School where she also was a co-valedictorian. the photograph sits on a table in her familly's home livingroom in Metamora on January 11, 2005.

Katie Kirkpatrick, 21, and Nick Godwin, 23, a Lapeer County Sheriff's deputy whom she first met when he was in 11th grade, get married at Church of Christ in Hazel Park on Saturday January 15, 2005.

Katie Kirkpatrick Godwin, center, rests for a few moments during her wedding party at Boulder Point Golf Club and Banquet Center in Oxford, MI, on Saturday January 15, 2005. Katie was exhausted. Her face looked as white as her gown. Five days later, Katie died. She did not let sickness stop her from living, take away the hope or faith that made her believe she had a future. She had a lovely wedding and she had love and she gave love and love doesn' t die. And that is how Katie beat cancer.

ETERNAL LOVE

The Bride was beautiful

SOULMATE