‘Thanksgiving Grandma’ and the teen she accidentally texted won’t let breast cancer keep them from their annual dinner
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The “Thanksgiving grandma,” who accidentally texted a dinner invitation to a teen she’d never met, invited him anyway and went viral for her kindness, is facing a new challenge as the holiday approaches.
The “Thanksgiving grandma,” who accidentally texted a dinner invitation to a teen she’d never met, invited him anyway and went viral for her kindness, is facing a new challenge as the holiday approaches. Wanda Dench is receiving chemotherapy for breast cancer, she said in a statement posted by Jamal Hinton, the young “stranger” she texted eight years ago when he was in high school. The accidental friends have celebrated Thanksgiving every year since 2016, when Dench thought she was texting one of her six grandchildren but reached Hinton in the middle of a class. Hinton texted Dench back, asking her who she was, thinking his own grandmother had a new phone number. To confirm, he asked her for a photo and was surprised to see a photo of Dench. He jokingly asked if he could still grab a plate of Thanksgiving dinner. Dench responded, “Of course you can. That’s what grandmas do … feed everyone!” Surprised by her kindness, he posted the exchange to social media and it went viral.
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