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Charlie Jones

Gran who befriended man after text mistake continues Thanksgiving tradition for 7th year

A young man and a gran who sparked up an unexpected friendship after she texted the wrong number, will be meeting up for the seventh Thanksgiving in a row.

Wanda Dench, 65, and Jamal Hinton, 22, have continued their tradition of meeting up over the US holiday period despite previously being strangers.

It all started in 2016, when Wanda Dench texted the wrong number by accident hoping just to tell her own grandson about dinner plans for the special day.

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