Marjorie and I knew each other in college, but not super well. I do remember taking her senior photograph for the Principia yearbook with someone else's dog that I borrowed for the occasion. But, we became close friends when she returned to the Monitor years later as an education writer. We took road trips together and talked and talked in the car as we went from one assignment to the next. One of our best collaborations was about Michelle, a migrant girl from Texas whose family worked half the year in Illinois planting and picking crops. Michelle later told me that when we got out of the car and she first laid eyes on us, she thought we were twins, or at least sisters. We were both tall and thin, with sharp features and brown hair. Michelle's story was just one of our many writer-photographer collaborations. It was, for me, a miraculous partnership. Marjorie would write - in her beautiful prose - exactly what I thought and felt about our story. What a gift. During the aftermath of 9/11, we worked on stories together in New York. One of them was about shelter animals who were being adopted after their owners perished in the Twin Towers - and how many other people were adopting animals for comfort. This took us to a New York City shelter to report. Not long after, Marjorie went back to that shelter to adopt one herself and found beautiful Sheba - the first love of her life. When Marjorie moved up to Boston to become an editor, I was saddened to lose my writing buddy, but happy to have her in the newsroom where I could see her every day. And there she met John. I take a teeny tiny bit of credit for helping bring the two together after an awkward first date where they both thought the other one wasn't interested...I heard this from both sides and was able to encourage John to ask her out again. Obviously that worked out well! What a lovely relationship. John - you brought Marjorie SO much joy and love...and vice versa. I can't believe our lovely girl is gone. My heart breaks. She is with us in our hearts...and as we try to emulate this lovely soul who expressed so much intelligence, grace, talent, humility and love. -Melanie