Warmer Together

ANNA ALDRICH + MICHAEL SHAW January 12, 2019

- ELIZABETH EDWARDS

Michael Shaw smiles when he tells the story of meeting Anna Aldrich—the future Anna Shaw. He was sitting with a group of his buddies at a bar in Ypsilanti, near where he was finishing up at Eastern Michigan University. He spotted Anna across the room, did a double-take and told his friends, “I’m going to marry that girl.”

A year and a half later, Michael was a state trooper and Anna was a nurse and they were ready for the forever commitment. Michael proposed to Anna in front of their families at Anna’s family’s Italian restaurant, Caruso’s in Angola, Indiana. She said, “Yes! Yes!” almost before he’d gotten down on one knee.