A woman’s touching daily ritual, maintained for seven years since her husband’s passing, has left internet viewers in tears.
A video posted by her granddaughter, Amelia Hebert, captured the 95-year-old woman kissing each sleeve of her late husband’s jackets—something she does every single morning. Hebert, 23, told Newsweek about her grandmother’s ritual, and what it means to her to witness such an enduring love.
“My grandpa died seven years ago, and my grandma turned 95 today, and every morning when she wakes up, she kisses each sleeve of his old jacket,” Hebert captioned the video. “Literally true love.”
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Hebert said that her grandmother, Marie Puyau, is a New Orleans native who was married for 60 years to her late husband. The granddaughter explained the genesis of this daily act.
“She’s been doing it ever since he passed in 2017. She loved him so much that she left his coats just the way he left them as a memory,” Hebert said. “She kisses them every single morning when she wakes up, and also wears his wedding ring.”
For Hebert, witnessing this ritual is a testament to an extraordinary love: “I think it’s an act of true genuine love that is so hard to even be found anymore,” she added. “It shows how truly in love she was with him and how much she misses him.”
Her grandfather, Hebert said, was one of a kind. “He was … someone you meet and you instantly see the beauty that they live,” she said. “He was soft-spoken and so genuine. The type of love they had was something that you don’t see much of anymore. It was true; it was good.”
For Hebert navigating love in 2025, she said she sees clearly the differences in her grandparents’ relationship and the ones that populate the digital world today.
“Back in the 1930s, they didn’t have technology like we do. They didn’t have Snapchat. You couldn’t be talking to multiple people at the same time,” Hebert said. “You met one person, and you took the time to get to know them and love them in a way that you knew you’d spend the rest of your life with them—and that’s exactly how they live[d] their life.”
The couple raised eight children together and taught other kids in the summers: “They would pack up in their little station wagon and camper and travel the whole United States for three months,” Hebert said. “Going to state after state traveling with their eight beautiful blessings. To this day, each and every one of them lives out the ways that our granddad taught them and taught us.”
While there is so much that Hebert and her family have held onto from this grandfather, father and husband, there is one that persists especially sweetly: With his wife and eight kids, he came up with the family name “Base 10+”—something the family has used for years since.