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Rapper, 22, travels 1,000 miles to meet 81-year-old woman he befriended playing online word game


A young rapper travelled more than 1,000 miles to meet a pensioner he befriended while playing a word game online.

Spencer Sleyon, who lives in Harlem, New York, finally met with Rosalind Guttman, 81, in Florida after the pair formed an unlikely bond while playing more than 300 matches on the Words with Friends app.

The app lets people play a Scrabble-like game with Facebook friends or other randomly-paired competitors.

He tweeted pictures of the pair greeting like long lost friends and the touching images have been shared more than 240,000 times on the social media network, garnering more than 1 million likes.

The meeting was arranged by the mother of one of Mr Sleyon friends, Hannah Butler, after she overheard the pair talking about the rapper’s chance friendship.

Amy Butler, a pastor at the Riverside Church, in Manhattan, initially wanted to write a sermon about Mr Sleyon and Ms Guttman’s bond.

She said the pair talked about everything from how competitive the pensioner felt about their online contests to the TV show Curb Your Enthusiasm, describing Ms Guttman as “like a character on The Golden Girls”.  

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Following the encounter, Ms Butler said: “We’re living in a country divided by fear of the other, and people are longing for ways to connect. This story has two unlikely people becoming friends. It’s very beautiful and hopeful.”

This story shows that despite all the conflict going on in the world and other issues going on, it shows that people of different ages can become friends even though they may not share much in common and were born in two different generations, even though we're used to seeing the elderly dislike young people due to what they have seen them do on a daily basis and young people disliking the elderly as they are always judgemental towards them.

From this story we may also see a change in the next few years in the way of how the young and the old interact and see each other (in terms of the way the behave in society).

Comments

  1. Coulsdon A Level Film and Media9 December 2017 at 08:01

    What a nice positive story Rochelle. It would help if you mentioned the source and the importance of it. I am unsure if you have put your opinion in here or if it is from the article? How does this link to the key concepts of Audience or Representation that we have discussed in class?

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