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Be Not Afraid In God's Handshave altered the picture for another couple, but not forher and Sergei. In fact, far from throwing a wrench intheir relationship, it only confirmed what they alreadyfelt: that regardless of her health, her life was in God’shands, and that there was no reason to break off theirplans to be engaged and married.I married Sergei and Adela in August 1985, and I willnever forget the conviction with which they answeredone question I asked them: “Will you bear with yourspouse in joy and in sorrow, in health and in sickness,until death parts you?” Never had that question seemedso important and real.Humanly, the new marriage didn’t seem to makesense: it began against the backdrop of a grueling seriesof chemotherapy treatments, the first of which leftAdela in critical condition. For the next three years, shehad to undergo almost continual chemotherapy withmultiple complications and frequent hospitalizations.Through it all, Sergei remained loyally at her side.Later her specialists recommended a more intensiveprotocol, part of which involved a bone marrowtransplant. She underwent this, too, but the benefitswere short-lived. Finally she decided to decline allfurther treatment.An outgoing person from childhood on, Adela neverlost her sense of humor. When chemo made her hair fallout, she painted herself, dressed up as a clown and went