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Mark Joseph Brisson Jr. is a father of one living in Sunset Beach, N.C.

In September 2025, two years after being diagnosed with colon cancer, his wife died

To help himself and his son navigate grief, the 37-year-old wrote a song that captured the depth of their emotions and honored their “prettiest angel”

In March 2023, Taylor Watts was diagnosed with colon cancer following a sharp decline in her health.

“About a year before the official diagnosis, she started doing things that were considered out of character,” her husband, Mark Joseph Brisson Jr., tells PEOPLE exclusively. “The cancer was having an effect on her brain chemistry, but we had no idea at the time.”

His wife, fiercely independent and at times admittedly “stubborn,” rarely shared her feelings out loud, makin

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