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How relocating from the U.S. to Costa Rica’s ‘blue zone’ totally changed this family’s life forever

QCOSTARICA (CTV) When Kema Ward-Hopper and her then-fiance Nicholas Hopper, both from the U.S., decided to get married in Costa Rica, they had no idea that they’d end up relocating there a few years later.

But a series of devastating events led the couple and daughter Aaralyn, now 15, to a new life in the Central American country’s very own “blue zone,” one of the regions of the world where people live longest and are the healthiest.

A beach in Costa Rica is seen in this undated file image. (Jake Marsee / Pexels)beac

Ward-Hopper, a health and life coach, was diagnosed with breast cancer a few months before their wedding in 2016.

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“[I had] started treatment and everything,” Ward-Hopper tells CNN Travel. “If you see pictures from my wedding, I didn’t have hair, and I didn’t really look like myself. But I was sick.”

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