Woman Shares Texts from Mother-in-Law After Her Mom Dies (Exclusive) [Video]

A Louisiana woman is going viral on TikTok after sharing the texts she received from her mother-in-law after her own mother died.

Macie Wood, 33, tells PEOPLE that she lost her own mom at age 20, to colon cancer.

Wood, who at the time had a 7-month-old child, said the experience was “life-altering” for her.

“My mother was my best friend,” she tells PEOPLE.

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Just one day after her mom’s funeral, Wood’s father-in-law was diagnosed with colon cancer — a year later, he died, too.

“My mother-in-law was going through her own life-altering event,” Wood says, adding that the two bonded over their shared losses and that Annie — her husband’s mom — ultimately became “the rock of our family.”

“Annie is the absolute matriarch. I have so many friends that don’t have that …