Friends Rita LaForce and Austen Creger are very familiar with each other’s voices. Three years of weekly phone calls have taken care of that. But what each other looks like in person? Well, that had to wait until Tuesday.
After hundreds of hours on the phone filled with comforting words during stressful times and stories from their past, LaForce and Creger finally met in person at Ruth’s Table in San Franciso’s Mission District.
“I’m overwhelmed,” Creger said while hugging LaForce for the first time.
LaForce and Creger’s friendship is one borne out of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The two were initially connected in March 2020 through