It is a solid friendship of two like-minded Southerners that started in, of all places, a high-end restaurant in Beverly Hills. This was several years before I would meet my future husband who was working in an office a couple of miles up the street.
I shall always be grateful to the good Lord for that moment in time, for that coincidence, or rather collision, of Southerners bumping into each other who began a conversation – and through that, I found my dear friend, Walt Ehmer.
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