RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Two friends connected by unimaginable loss were reunited for the first time in years.
On New Year’s Eve, Jamie Perkins and Candice Thompson met for the first time in eight years since their daughters received cancer treatment at St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. The reunion day was also the five-year anniversary of Perkin’s daughter’s death.
“The timing couldn’t be more right to have one of my best friends arrive,” Perkins said. “It was so surreal to just be able to hold her face and grab her face and hug and kiss her in real life.”…