You're listening to The Hidden Lightness on America Out Loud Talk Radio.

I'm your host, Jimmy Hinton.

There's a really cool story out of San Francisco, and I just had to share this.

It's super, super cool, and it's inspiring and has all the feels.

So what happened was that a young woman in her 20s gets a new cell phone.

And like most of us, we get random numbers assigned to us.

And she started getting these text messages.

It was like, hey, Vern Dog, Vern Dog, what's you up to, Vern Dog? She's like, Vern Dog, what in the

world? And what's interesting is, instead of her ignoring those text messages, curiosity got the best of her. So she and her

friends began to do a little bit of legwork and a little bit of research, and they found out

that Vernog was in fact a man who was absolutely famous and iconic.

In fact, I would almost guarantee that most of you have seen some of Werner's work.

He's a photographer, and a very famous one at that.

His name is Werner Kruton.

He has more than 500,000 images that he's taken worldwide.

Many of those are very famous images.

He's taken them of famous people, famous events, natural disasters.

And so this young woman, Laura, starts to answer him back.

And she becomes friends with them.

At first, it was a couple emails and text messages.

Then it turned into phone calls, and then

visits to his house, and Werner and Laura Stevens became really good friends.

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