Grandma Accidentally Invites Stranger to Thanksgiving, and it Couldn’t Have Ended Better

Grandma Accidentally Invites Stranger to Thanksgiving, and it Couldn’t Have Ended Better
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Thanksgiving is a day when we gather with loved ones to share a festive dinner together and count our blessings. But how would you feel about inviting a stranger over for Thanksgiving dinner? That’s what this kind grandma ended up doing after an invitation text message mix-up! Yet, amazingly, her kindness resulted in a serendipitous new friendship!

In 2016, for Thanksgiving, Wanda Dench, a grandmother from Mesa, Arizona, sent a group text message to invite a few of her family members to Thanksgiving dinner, Arizona Republic reported. Unknowingly, one of the recipients who received her invitation was Jamal Hinton, whom she had never met.

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