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Jake was offered a job at a newspaper in Oakdale in June of 1999. Vicky agreed to move on only one condition - that she would get to choose the names for their twins!  Jake agreed and the happy couple moved to Oakdale.

Not long after, they found out that Vicky's mother Donna had developed skin cancer.  Vicky decided to go with Donna to New York for her treatment. In November of 1999, Vicky was involved in an airplane crash and presumed dead. Jake couldn't let go of his wife and insisted that she had survived the crash.

However, Jake eventually realizes that Vicky is gone, and he tries to move on for the sake of her two boys.  He even begins seeing Molly Conlan, but she knows he is still

grieving for his wife. A year after Vicky's death, Molly thinks she is hallucinating when she begins to see visions of Vicky's ghost. When Vicky appears to Jake, he is stunned. She tells him that she needs his help in order to cross over into Heaven, but before she can say anything else, she grows weak and vanishes. Jake sets out to find the truth about Vicky's death, and he soon discovers that Vicky had not been killed in the plane crash, that she had been alive for several days after the crash. Jake realizes that Vicky's ghost is trying to tell him that she was alive long enough to give birth to the twins she was pregnant with.

Vicky leads Jake and Molly to a small village in Canada near the site of the plane crash, where Jake discovers that Vicky had fought for her life long enough to give birth to their twins. He is lead to a fisherman who finally admits that he had found Vicky alive and had taken her to his home and helped her deliver the babies before she died. He is reluctant to give the babies back to Jake, but he finally agrees and Jake meets his daughters, whom Vicky had named Bridget and Michelle, for the first time. With her unfinished business now done, Vicky appears once more to Jake and they share a tearful goodbye. She is then finally able to cross over into Heaven.

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