Bride Passes Father-Daughter Dance To Friend, Dying Father

REHOBOTH, MA - A Massachusetts bride is gaining national attention after ceding the traditional father-daughter dance at her wedding to her best friend and her father, who is dying of cancer.

Michaela Cook-Yotts invited her bridesmaid, Jessica Otto, to take the dancefloor with her father and sister at Cook-Yotts' February wedding in Sharon. Otto told WPRI-TV she was grateful for the "selfless" act. She told ABC her father, Peter, only has about two months to live after battling cancer since 2001.

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The three danced to Aaron Krause's version of "Every Breath You Take" by The Police.

Peter Otto is a patient at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and participated for years in the annual Pan-Mass Challenge that benefits it. But Jessica will be cycling solo next month because of her father's declining health.

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