In 1987, he was invited to a wedding where he met Tatiana, a Tutsi nurse who lived in Ruhengeri. Rusesabagina called in a favour with a frequent customer of the Mille Collines, a Minister of Health, to transfer Tatiana to a job at Central Hospital in Kigali. Tatiana and Paul married two years later and she adopted his children. She gave birth twice, but only their son, Trésor, survived infancy. Rusesabagina's father died in 1991, and his mother passed away shortly after.