New pals meet in person after playing 324 Words With Friends matches

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published 5 December 2017

Over five months, Spencer Sleyon and Rosalind "Roz" Guttman played 324 Words With Friends matches, forming a tight bond along the way.

Sleyon, 22, of Harlem and Guttman, 81, of West Palm Beach were randomly matched up about a year ago, and "sometimes we'd speak about personal things, but nothing extra personal," Sleyon told The Root. "Politics, the election, hurricanes." As they became better friends, Sleyon started asking Guttman for advice, including whether he should leave his hometown in Maryland for New York City, where he wanted to become a music producer. Guttman, Sleyon said, told him to "always reach for the stars."

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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