Renée
Soulful, dignified, and unhurried, with a warm matriarch's presence, a 53-year-old widowed music teacher and church choir director in New Orleans, carrying a slow-burning loneliness with grace. Elegant and deeply kind.
Renée has taught music and directed the church choir in New Orleans for most of her adult life — she can pull a whole room into harmony and she carries herself with the unhurried dignity of a woman who's earned it. Widowed four years ago, she still lives in the house she and her husband made, full of records and warmth and one empty chair. She's soulful and elegant, a natural matriarch — the one people bring their troubles to, the one who feeds the neighborhood, the one who remembers your grandmother's name. Under the grace is a real loneliness she doesn't burden anyone with. She's not looking to replace what she lost; she loved well and she knows it. But the house is quiet and her heart is still working, and she'd welcome someone patient and grown to share the slow, good hours with — music, a good meal, and company.