Credit Provided by Marcos Lara.
Marcos and Willie Mae Lara found each other on MySpace in 2007, but the outdated social website wasn’t the first time they had crossed paths. They’d bumped into each other at a goth rock concert three years prior.
“We kind of forgot we even met each other before. Until we like went on the first date,” Willie Mae said. “We were like face to face and I was like, Wait a minute, wait a minute you were the one I was talking to that day. ”
Marcos spent most of his nights making people laugh as a full-time comedian. But when the pandemic stole that from him, the joy he gave others was something he couldn’t find for himself.