Before Miranda Hagin, 22, graduates from Evangel University today , she will share a private moment with her mother, Marlene Ann Hagin.

There will be no hugs, no kisses. Instead, she’ll see a video her mother made in 2006, when she was diagnosed with lung cancer and feared she would not live to see her daughter in a cap and gown.

Today, Miranda will receive her bachelor’s degree in elementary education, and she will watch the clip for the first time, more than two years after she lost her mother and, four months earlier, her father .