LUBBOCK, Texas. (KCBD/Gray News) – A man in Texas proposed to a woman whose life he saved after she was severely injured in a near-fatal pool accident.
When Brooklyn Boyer was paralyzed in a pool accident in 2020, her relationship with Alan Mann was just beginning. However, five years later, they’re now planning a wedding.
“I sit like all day just looking at the ring and then I’m like, that’s probably bad, but I just can’t stop. I just am so happy, so, so happy,” Brooklyn said.
Their love story started in high school, on a secret date to Sonic. They’d known each other for months, but at that moment, Alan knew Brooklyn was the one.
“Someday, this is going to be the girl that I’m going to marry,” he said. “I was like, I don’t know why I feel this or know this, but it just felt right, and it hasn’t changed since,” he said.
After they started dating, their lives changed forever. While swimming with friends, Brooklyn hit her head on the bottom of the pool and was paralyzed.
Alan had just finished lifeguard training and knew exactly what to do until paramedics arrived.
“Lots of people say it’s like a coincidence or something, but I just think it’s a God thing,” he said. “That day was hard, but looking back at all the things that, all the good things and blessings that came from it, just really amazing to look back and be like God was with us this entire time.”
Brooklyn’s long journey to healing then began. She spent three months in Denver, Colorado, at Craig Hospital, where Alan and his parents stayed.
“I had told him that I understood if he didn’t want to continue dating or anything like that, just because I don’t know, I wasn’t naive to that, that not everyone can do that or wants to do that, but he never left my side,” she said. “I told him again when I was in rehab at Craig, and he was like, ‘I don’t want to hear you say that again.’”
From hospital rooms to a private prom with some help dancing at the Moody NeuroRehabilitation Institute in Lubbock, to watching Brooklyn re-learn how to drive, and now a new way of dancing in her motorized wheelchair, Alan says he wouldn’t change a thing.
“To witness firsthand all that she’s got to accomplish and do, even with the injury, has been nothing less of amazing,” he said. “I’m very blessed that I get to have one of the front row seats to that experience.”
From saving her life to now saving the date, Brooklyn says she couldn’t have asked for a better partner.
“He’s just such a blessing. Like, that’s one of the number one words that comes to my brain when I think of Alan, is just, a blessing straight from God.”
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