Growing up, my 84-year-old great uncle and I barely knew each other. Now he's one of my best friends.
Source: Business Insider ·
Growing up, my great-uncle and I lived in different countries, so I didn't know him very well. Now that I live abroad, he's one of my closest friends.
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My 84-year-old great uncle is now my best friend, even though I didn't know him well when I was growing up.Sean LoeraGrowing up in the US, I barely knew my great-uncle, who lives in London.In 2014, I spent the summer in his city, and we formed a close relationship.Now, I live in London and he's become one of my closest friends.Growing up in the US, I barely knew my family on the other side of the Atlantic. In my mind, my Uncle Brian was more of a name than a person, and I had only met him a handful of times.Two of those meetings were before I was old enough to remember, and the other two were when I was an angsty high school teenager with not much interest in getting to know someone more than twice my age.It wasn't until 2014, when I traveled to London for the summer to explore my ancestral home, that I connected with my uncle.Preparing for what I imagined to be a cordial, potentially awkward meet-up, I didn't expect much in the way of connection. He was, essentially, a stranger.I…
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