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What mattered was presence.
And Marshall, even in frailty, understood that. There were nights where he squeezed a hand or offered a faint smile, as if acknowledging something unspoken. For a man who spent his career playing characters who survived everything, accepting vulnerability took more strength than any role ever demanded of him.
For now, his children are doing what they can: protecting the man the world believes is unbreakable, even as he faces the one opponent none of us outrun.
And in the quiet moments, between the grief and the gratitude, between the fading memories and the flashes of clarity, they sit with him—not as fans, not as keepers of a legacy, but as kids who still see him as the strongest man they ever knew.