As Thanksgiving, the largest holiday in the United States, is approaching this week, the story of a grandmother living in Arizona is a hot topic.
It's a tradition to eat together with the family like Chuseok, but a black grandson came to the house of a white grandmother Wanda.
Their relationship goes back five years.
It was wrong for this black man named Jamal for her grandmother to text her grandchildren and granddaughters an invitation to dinner for Thanksgiving.
Jamal, who was 18 at the time, asked if she could have dinner together, although she wasn't a grandson when she sent a message from her wrongly sent, and a special relationship began when Wanda and her grandfather readily accepted it.
The grandmother, grandfather and Jamal met every Thanksgiving for the next five years and ate like a real family.
But there is no grandfather at the Thanksgiving dinner table this year.
He died of corona in March.
[Wanda Grandma: It only took me 5 minutes for my husband to close his eyes.
Sorry.] On
the first Thanksgiving Day without Grandpa, Grandma was devastated, but Jamal and his girlfriend gave her a reassuring comfort.
[Jamal: I want to say hello to my deceased grandfather.
I want to say thank you for accepting us with open arms in your home.]
However, the U.S. government has recommended refraining from traveling on Thanksgiving due to concerns about the spread of the coronavirus, so Grandma and Jamal met in advance this year before the start of the population movement in earnest to commemorate the early Thanksgiving.
[Grandma Wanda: This year's Thanksgiving is unlike any other day before.]
Although Grandpa couldn't be together, Grandma Wanda was reassuring this year with her real grandson, granddaughter, and the Jamal family, who made a new relationship through a missed text. Local media reported that they had Thanksgiving.