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Reconnecting 10 Years Later 'Was The True Test Of Friendship And Time'

Jeanne Satterfield and Barbara Parham landed in a tight spot after each lost their homes. The two were each other's anchor during a pivotal life transition in a Boston homeless shelter.
Jeanne Satterfield, left, and Barbara Parham, stand in front of Boston's Pine Street Inn homeless shelter in October, where they reconnected for the first time in a decade. They plan to return to the shelter next week to help out for the holidays.

Last year, friends Jeanne Satterfield and Barbara Parham reconnected for the first time in a decade at a place neither of them expected to be — a homeless shelter.

On a visit to StoryCorps in October, Satterfield and Parham recall how reuniting at thea shelter in Boston, couldn't have come at a

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