Young Lady Reunites with Her Childhood Bestie after 16 Years, Photos Go Viral
- A young lady in the course of celebrating her joy unknowingly kick-started a new trend on social media
- This is as the young lady announced with cute pictures that she had found her childhood best friend after 16 years
- Their throwback and present photos ignited a search for childhood best friends among internet users
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A young lady has taken to social media to celebrate reuniting with her childhood female best friend after 16 years of being apart.
In a Twitter post, @mandyretsuko shared a throwback picture side by side a photo they took when they reunited.

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Both friends seemed to have experienced remarkable transformation in both fashion sense and look from the childhood photo they took at a library.
Social media users gushed about their reunion and interestingly launched a search for their childhood friends.

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See some reactions below:
@Brianna85634659 sharing an old picture wrote:
"COULD ANY ONE HELP ME FIND MY 5TH GRADE FREIND? Her name is Aoi Nagamine and we had a forming friendship but SHE MOVED BACK TO JAPAN and i never got her number or got her address so i could write her letters. If any one knows her social medias please send it to me."
@thejftt said:
"Must be nice. I found my childhood bestie after 15 years. I messaged him and he said he doesnt want to have any contact with people from his childhood, then blocked me."
@killerrkelly appealed:
"Umm if anyone can find twins named Britney and Ashley from Escondido, CA, I would greatly appreciate it they were my absolute best friends back in elementary school before I moved away, but I can’t remember their last name."
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Meanwhile, Briefly News previously reported that a man had reunited with his schoolmates of 60 years in epic photos.
In a Twitter post on Monday, April 5, the man @MYPD2020 organised a get-together for his class peers. The man further revealed that they all graduated in 1967.
@MYPD2020 revealed that since then, he had not seen some of them. According to him, their time together was such a memorable one as they had a whole lot of things to talk about.
In the first frame the man shared, his old friends posed for the camera in a black and white photograph.
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