The nicest story on the web today

[malaise]

https://www.local10.com/news/local/2020/02/10/after-decades-apart-2-south-florida-women-reconnect-with-help-of-local-10s-calvin-hughes/

Two South Florida women are reunited after spending decades apart.

They both grew up on opposite sides of the tracks, as they used to say in Miami.


Thanks to never losing hope and everlasting love, one sister found the other to deliver a special but simple gift.

Barbara Zohlman and Enid Pickney are laughing like sisters, sharing old times.

They haven’t seen each other for decades.

As girls they often would hear about each other, but could never share a simple moment together.

What's normal now was inconceivable in the 1940s, with segregation in Miami for blacks and whites.

Pickney’s mother, Lenora Curtis, worked for Zohlman’s grandparents, Ethal and Joe Alters, who lived on Allison Island, which is still a wealthy small neighborhood in Miami Beach with multi-million dollar mansions.

Curtis was their maid, but for Zohlman, she was far more.

“Lenora was there all the time,” Zohlman said. “She did the cooking. She was a nurturer. My grandmother was not. (Lenora) was the one I would tell my problems to, my concerns, too. Always there for me. And she gave me this doll, this black doll with blue eyes.”

[magicarpet]

1. Oh my,... look at you dear,...

You got more hearts than Richard Cheney.

Here are a few more,....

[malaise]

2. Never thought anyone would put me in a sentence with that Dick

Thanks for yours but no more - let's give to DUers who don't post often.
I joined Mineral Man's thread on Saturday and asked that we share them with others are we really have more than enough.

[redstatebluegirl]

3. I went looking for you to give you one, then I saw Mineral Man's thread.

You are both deserving, but I have done what you suggested and am giving to those who don't have one.

[irisblue]

4. This is good news. Thanks for this.