I first met Marie on December 23rd 2017. Micheleen and I had been dating for 9 months and we went to spend Christmas at the Harris cabin (version 1) in Colorado. If you haven’t been there, the high elevation can hit you really hard in unexpected ways. In any case, I was feeling the altitude sickness very badly even before we got to the cabin.
When we arrived Marie instantly knew I was feeling sick although I was doing my best to pretend like I was fine; I was trying to impress the parents of the woman that I love. But this isn’t about me, Marie immediately went into mother-mode. She made me drink a ton of water and take some tylenol for the sickness. While these things may not seem like much, these minor moments perfectly reflect the woman that I knew. She saw me and knew how to help me and couldn’t stand by without helping.
She was smart, she was witty, she was clever in ways one might not expect a petite southern lady to be, she defied expectations while being everything you wanted her to be.
I’m so saddened that I only had the privilege of knowing her for a very short time, but I love her like a mother. I’ll miss her like a mother. I will forever be grateful for her as the mother of my wife and the hand she had in raising the most incredible woman I know.
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