Texas Railroad Commissioner Jim Wright says his wife, Sherri, has always been more than just his partner.”She’s not only my wife, she’s my best friend,” Wright says in a newly released video from The American Border Story. “We were never apart. We do better together than we do apart.”The couple is publicly sharing for the first time the story of the 2017 crash that left Sherri permanently paralyzed, describing how a normal morning changed nearly every part of their lives.Sherri Wright recalled first meeting Jim while working in San Antonio, where her desk happened to sit directly in front of the men’s restroom.EXCLUSIVE: NOEM BACKS TRUMP’S ‘DALILAH LAW’ AFTER CRASH LEAVES YOUNG GIRL UNABLE TO WALK, TALK”Everybody would always talk to me except for Jim,” she said in the video.Jim Wright said he immediately noticed her.”I remember meeting her there and thinking to myself that’s the most beautiful woman I’ve ever laid my eyes on,” he said.After weeks of small conversations, the two became close friends before eventually marrying in Las Vegas during the National Finals Rodeo.”It started out as being a friend turning into my best friend and then turning into my wife,” Jim Wright said. “It’s just been amazing.”Then came Jan. 9, 2017.WOMAN WITH 5% CHANCE OF SURVIVAL AFTER SKI ACCIDENT MAKES ‘MIRACLE’ RECOVERY”It was a normal day,” Sherri Wright said.She had just dropped the couple’s youngest son off at school and was driving home when the crash happened about a mile from their house.Sherri Wright recalled the…
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