The friendship they forged would last 51 years

“True friends are never apart, maybe in distance, but never in heart.” — Helen Keller, 1880 – 1968 American author, disability rights advocate I don’t know what day it was when my mother, Indianola “Inky” Aldridge, and Betty Rust met. I do remember that it was a day in March when the Aldridge’s settled in Mount Pleasant. Maneuvering from a then ...