An accidental text has cooked up seven years of Thanksgiving dinners for Wanda Dench and Jamal Hinton.
“What say to me is that Jamal and I, because of our friendship, we've given people hope and faith in humanity, and that there are people out there that don't see each other for their color or religion or for anything else,” Dench said.
As Dench and Hinton waited on Wednesday afternoon for a couple of pumpkin pies to finish baking at her home in Mesa, Arizona, the pair recalled how when that initial text conversation came to light the national mood was tense with the country reeling from a divisive presidential election.And Dench and Hinton have leaned on each other through the troubles of the last few years.
Their bond stretches beyond November – as the two traveled to Atlanta together earlier this year and he joined her when she got her first tattoo recently.
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