An unexpected friendship between two strangers helped fulfill a decades-old wish for a Minnesota woman.

Earlier this year, Marianne Baumgarten wrote a letter to CBS News contributor David Begnaud. The now 90-year-old explained how she was holding on to her dream to be a flower girl for 80 years.

When she was 8 years old, Baumgarten was supposed to be the flower girl in a family wedding.

"You can't imagine how so disappointed I was when I came down with measles just before the wedding. I couldn't even be consoled," she explained in her letter.

She never expected her dream would be achieved decades later.

"I finally got my wish"

During the COVID pandemic in 2020, Baumgarten would connect with people on the neighborhood social network app Nextdoor and ask if anyone would be willing to h

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