What started out with an incorrect phone number is now a friendship of 20 years. But Mike Moffitt and Gladys Hankerson had never met in person until last week. Moffitt and his family were visiting Florida and decided to surprise Hankerson at her home.
One day in the early 2000s, Gladys Hankerson of Delray Beach, Florida, was trying to call her sister in Maryland, according to CNN affiliate WPBF.Her sister's area code was 410, but Hankerson kept dialing 401 instead. Mike Moffitt in Rhode Island picked up.Hankerson apologized for mistakenly dialing his number and hung up immediately, but she continued to call multiple times.
Around the same time, Moffitt had lost his grandparents, and Hankerson filled that void for him just like he filled the void for her.Fast forward 20 years and their friendship is thriving. Moffitt said the two have stayed in contact, talking every few months or so, but they had never met in person.That was until last week's Thanksgiving holiday, when Moffitt and his family were visiting Florida and decided to surprise Hankerson at her home in Delray Beach.