In recognition of her work as a dating and domestic
violence advocate since her recovery, Melissa Dohme was invited to throw
out the first pitch at Monday night's Tampa Bay Rays baseball game
against the New York Yankees. The moment became even more exciting than
she had expected when the baseball she was handed read "Will you marry
me?"
Her new fiancé, Cameron Hill, is an EMT and
one of the first responders who helped her after she was stabbed more
than 30 times by an ex-boyfriend in January 2012.
I
felt myself dying so ... I couldn't really breathe ... I felt myself, I
really was not going to make it. I really said 'this is it,'" she told
CBS News last year about the attack.
Hill didn't
know her before the incident, but recalls having a feeling that he would
see her again, the Tampa Bay Times reported.
Hill and another first responder showed up to see Dohme speak at a church later that year, and he made plans to see her again.
"I
was weirdly giddy," she told the Tampa Bay Times in 2013 for an earlier
story about their budding romance. "I had this feeling about him."
Despite
the emotional and psychological toll of her attack, they began dating
and Dohme found comfort and love with Hill. "When I look back on that
night, I can't think of it as all bad anymore because I met Cameron,"
she told the paper in 2013. "He's the one I've been waiting for. My
fairy tale."
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