For over 20 years, Mike Moffitt kept receiving calls from an older woman from Florida. Gladys, the lady at the other end of the phone line, was trying to reach her daughter in Maryland. Mistakenly, she would dial area code 401, instead of 410, and each time she called, Moffitt answered. Showing great patience, Moffitt finally asked her name, he recalled . Through the years, Gladys became a prominent presence in Moffitt's life, even though they never met until this year. He made a surprise visit to Gladys' home and presented her with flowers the day before Thanksgiving. "I just said, 'Hi, I'm Mike from Rhode Island.' Her eyes lit up," Moffitt said of his first meeting with his phone pal. Moffitt, 46, owner of Dennis Moffitt Painting in Wakefield, Rhode Island, spoke with Gladys regularly when she would call to check up on him and his family or to inquire about the weather in Rhode Island. "I started to do the same," he said. At first, the conversations between "Mike from...
