错发短信收获七年友谊

Alice Gawthrop

一次发错信息的经历，让贾马尔·欣顿和旺达·丹奇建立了七年的友谊！

In 2016, the then-17-year-old Jamal Hinton received a text, supposedly from his grandma, asking if he'd make it to Thanksgiving that year.After exchanging a few texts, it soon became clear that the text's sender,Wanda Dench,was not in fact his grandma.

She invited Hinton to dinner regardless, and after Hinton shared the exchange on the Internet, the pair went viral.Spending Thanksgiving together has become an annual thing for Hinton and Dench, with this year marking the tradition's seventh anniversary.Their friendship has gone from strength to strength, even through event like the passing of Dench's husband,Lonnie.

Dench said,“Jamal taught me that age made absolutely no difference.When Jamal came along, my husband, his girlfriend and I would go out to dinner throughout the year together and we would just lose all track of time.One time, we were at a restaurant for three or four hours and I couldn't believe we were there that long.We kept talking!It was just such a wonderful conversation.”

The pair have even gone into business together, launching a water company called BlackMP, and the story is reportedly being made to be a movie.

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