ST PAUL, Minn. — In the fall of 2018, two teenagers arrived at Regions Hospital in separate ambulances.

16-year-old Isabelle Richard suffered a massive head injury in a car crash while driving to her grocery cashier job.

18-year-old Zach Zarembinski suffered his brain injury playing football for Hill-Murray High School.

Zach and Isabelle came through the hospital’s emergency department nine days apart. No one, at the time, imagined they’d one day be spending the rest of their lives together.

Earlier this month, seven years after their brain injuries, Zach convinced Isabelle to return to Regions Hospital to record an episode of a podcast they’d started producing.

A few minutes into sharing their stories, Zach told Isabelle he had a question.

“Will you marry me?” he asked.

A beaming

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