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Welcome to Kind World.

I'm Yasminamir.

And I'm Andrea Aswahay. What draws you to some of your closest friends?

We often think that we need to have a lot in common, but that's not always the case.

This week's story is about one of those unlikely friendships that somehow seems just perfect.

It originally aired in March 2017.

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today's story is about Dan Peterson, who lives in Augusta, Georgia. For years, Dan and his wife were inseparable.

My wife, she was an angel. They met late in life and did everything together.

She drove him to work every day,

and he ran errands for her business in floral design.

I've always been a bit of a loner. So we had each other. We just devoted us off to each other.

I had it all figured out that I was going to die first and so that's no problem.

And then all of a sudden she was in hospital for 35 days.

Mary's 80-year-old heart days.

Mary's 80-year-old heart was beating abnormally fast,

and it went faster and faster until finally, after 35 days,

it stopped.

Dan sat next to his wife's unresponsive body for hours trying to come to terms with his new reality.

As days turn into months, Dan didn't know what to do with himself.

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