Woman learns she's pregnant with triplets on day of husband’s wake

A woman from Chicago gave her dead husband a bittersweet parting gift when she whispered her pregnancy to him at his wake, a daily reported.

Brian and Courtney had been planning to have a second child, so their toddler daughter, Reagan, would have a sibling.

But as destiny would have it, Brian was killed in a truck accident. The same say Courtney had taken a pregnancy test where the result was positive.

Two weeks later, when the family thought she was suffering a miscarriage, the family got yet another surprise.

They were told that Courtney was expecting triplets.

Her sister Amanda has set up a GoFundMe account to help the family with this 'spectacular and slightly scary news'.

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