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Wales Online
Wales Online
Health
Mark Smith

'I'm running 100km in a day to support my desperately unwell fiancée'

Chris Wright said he was "over the moon" when his "perfect" partner Michelle agreed to become his wife. "The moment she said yes it felt like I'd won the global lottery," he beamed.

"She's the kindest person I've ever met – really thoughtful, clever, and absolutely beautiful. I just felt so, so lucky." But for the majority of the time they've been together the pair have had to face more obstacles than most couples.

Four years ago, not long after they'd first started dating, Michelle noticed a lump in her breast and went to get it checked out by her GP. Following tests in hospital it was discovered she had triple negative breast cancer – an aggressive and hard to treat form of the disease.

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