A bittersweet Thanksgiving for the grandmother and teenager who met via an accidental text in 2016

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Four years ago, a stranger was accidentally invited to Thanksgiving dinner via text message. Wanda Dench and Jamal Hinton celebrated once again in Arizona, but there was an empty seat at the table. Dench's husband died in April from Covid-19 complications

Wanda Dench and Jamal Hinton celebrated their fifth Thanksgiving on Friday in Mesa, Arizona, but there was an empty seat at the dinner table. After 43 years of marriage, Dench's husband, Lonnie Dench, passed away in April from complications caused by Covid-19."I wasn't looking forward to it at first because Lonnie wasn't going to be there. The past seven months have been so difficult, but this was really important to me," Dench, 63, told CNN.

"When Hinton first showed up on Dench's doorsteps, he was worried there would be awkward silences or moments where he wouldn't know what to say. What he didn't expect was how she would very quickly become one of his closest friends."Whenever we met, we would spend four or five hours, just talking and talking. It was never awkward, Wanda and Lonnie became two close best friends to me," Hinton said."There's nothing about her that is mean, or uncaring.

 

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Eh bechara

Of course, a nice story brought down by the media covid monster. Almost like you guys are using the virus for gain. Weird.

He died 8 months ago....

Four years already?

Very sad God Bless them

This is a wonderful story about how they met and made Thanksgiving a tradition and unbelievably heartbreaking that she lost her husband to COVID.

You were worshipping HillaryClinton on your channel tonight. Weird and irrelevant. Still, very telling.

Look, you accidentally text me I don’t care what race you are I’m not inviting you over for thanksgiving, let’s all be real about this.

Sorry for your loss.

Cnn always so happy

Oh I thought all of white America was racist I guess they’re wrong

And CNN's brain also died years ago.

I love this story so much. RIP Lonnie ♥️💐🕯

So sad 😞🙏🏽 been following this story since the beginning.

I look forward to reading this story every Thanksgiving, like its tradition

This accidental friendship has been such a beautiful story. 💕But we’re 😢So sorry for your loss.

Jesus Christ. She didn't deserve that. ❤

Touching story! I wonder if it's true... The result of being a fake news network cause people to question everything you say.

This REMAINS a beautiful story.

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