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DECATUR, Ga. — You may remember the line from the movie Casablanca: “This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.” This story is a reminder of just how beautiful friendships can be.
First, meet Tad Landau; he has been a firefighter for ten years for DeKalb County Fire Station #1. “People call us in their worst hour,” says Landau. “We see people when they don’t want to be seen.”
But, he notes, “Once you do the job, that’s the end of it. You wonder about people; you wonder how people are doing.” Two summers back, Landau’s station received a medical call. An elderly woman had fallen at her home. Landau did not yet know it, but he was about to enter, not a one-time job, but that beautiful friendship. At the home off Clairmont Road, he found a irrepressible character named Mary Wood.
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