It began in November 2016, when Hinton, then 17, got a text message from an 1 number inviting him to Thanksgiving. When he asked who it was, the person 2 : "Your grandma."
"Grandma? Can I have your 3 ?" the teenager replied. He received a photo of a woman he had never seen before. It was Dench, now 64.
Hinton wrote back, "You're not my grandma," 4 a laughing face. Still playing along, he jokingly asked: "Can I still get a 5 though?"
Dench replied: "Of course you can. That's what grandmas do... feed everyone."
Hinton soon 6 her mistaken invitation had turned genuine, and he decided to have a Thanksgiving meal with her family, including her actual grandson, whom she 7 intended to text.
Hinton 8 the conversation on social media; it quickly went viral. And it's become an annual 9 that's beloved by the families.
Last week Hinton 10 that the two would be celebrating the day together again. "We are all set for year 7!" he wrote on Twitter.
"I would have 11 a wonderful relationship," Dench said, when asked what would have happened if she hadn't invited Hinton over years ago. "I've changed my 12 so much on the younger generation."
Although Dench was 13 about the misdirected text in 2016 at first, both she and Hinton 14 it. "Family is more than 15 " Dench said. "It's the people you want to be with."
