Some people have a natural beauty, inside, and out. I’d say Mecah was one of those people. She had a sort of sensitivity, she knew what people meant, no matter what they said. She cared about everyone else much more than she cared about herself. Sometimes she cared too little about herself, that it was concerning.

She’s been gone for six years. Six years is a long time to be gone. She left so suddenly, sometimes it feels as though we didn’t say goodbye at all. In a lot of ways, we didn’t.

Her birthday was always a fun occasion. If anything I liked it more than my own. We...