How a Wrong-Number Text Became a Decade of Chosen Family Celebrations for Wanda Dench and Jamal Hinton (Exclusive)

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Ten years ago, an accidental text from a grandmother in Mesa, Arizona, to a teenager she’d never met sparked one of the internet’s most viral holiday traditions.

What should have been a forgettable mix-up instead bloomed into an annual Thanksgiving reunion — and a friendship that has carried both Wanda Dench and Jamal Hinton through loss, new beginnings and some of life’s most unexpected blessings.

“I know it was fate,” Dench said while speaking exclusive