It was a friendship driven by old-time automobiles.
And it started with 91-year-old George Sage’s appointment to see a nurse.
Mr. Sage’s visit to an ear specialist led to his meeting nurse Sarah Mpare, and he mentioned the Ford Model A he was restoring. He also learned they had something in common—the two from Redmond, Washington, were both once Spokanites.
This neighborly chitchat led him to invite Ms. Mpare to bring her two kids, then 14-year-old Samuel and Isabel, who was 13, to come to see and sit in that old antique car of his. And so they did….