Moira Collette-Jean Legault had just awakened from a brain operation when she received some devastating news. She would most likely have about a year to live.
Tyler Scott Ferron, Ms. Legault’s partner of five years, rushed into her room at Vanderbilt University Medical Center right as the surgeon was delivering the prognosis.
It was a weekday in early May, and Mr. Ferron had left his shift as a maintenance technician at Brookdale Senior Living, a nursing home in Brentwood, Tenn., early. It was then that he asked Ms. Legault what she wanted to do in her final year.
Ms. Legault, 27, has a type of brain cancer called astrocytoma and was having a shunt placed in her head during the operation. She said she wanted to travel — that is, to go anywhere within driving distance since it wasn’t recommended for her to fly on a plane. A few weeks later, she started a GoFundMe account to raise money to cross off bullet points on her bucket list.
Her No. 1 wish was to marry the love of her life. “I said, ‘Let’s do it,’” recalled Mr. Ferron, also 27.
“I’m just trying to spend as many days as I can with this man,” Ms. Legault said.
Ms. Legault had known she wanted to spend her life with Mr. Ferron pretty much since they first met in February 2019 in Nashua, N.H.
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