For Jeremie Smith and Maggie Wetzel, the best news was followed by some of the worst news. In 2016, they lived near Champaign-Urbana, Illinois and she was expecting their son Isaac. Not long after, she was told she also had breast cancer. In the midst of all this, Maggie was preparing to complete her PhD and a move to Columbus, Ohio was on the horizon.

In his rider profile, Jeremie writes: “We felt like a category 5 hurricane was blowing through our lives and all we could do was hold on, white-knuckled, and hope that modern medicine would prevent our love story from being cut short.”

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