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It Wasn't Friendship At First Sight. 35 Years On, They Found A 'Forever Love'

Young and on her own in New York, a bright-eyed Julaina Glass arrived in Beau McCall's Harlem apartment building. Though it took time, Glass endeared herself to McCall. "You're a part of me," he said.
Beau McCall (left) and Julaina Glass spoke for a StoryCorps interview in 2017 about how their relationship has blossomed over the years — from distant neighbors to close friends.

Julaina Glass was just 19 years old and on her own for the first time when she moved into a studio apartment in a Harlem, N.Y., brownstone during the 1980s.

Soon, she met her upstairs neighbor, Beau McCall, who was about 10 years older.

The two strangers would become lifelong friends — but it was hardly friendship at first sight.

A 60-year-old McCall and Glass, 49, came

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