They brought the quarantine and shared memories
quarantine Mode for a few months was shared by many families around the world, but the Americans Eric and Jen Strom, on the contrary, for the isolation found new relatives who were their neighbors. However, to cuddle and spend time together, they still will have to wait until the end of quarantine.
Whoa! In a state of 40 million people, these transplanted Norwegians unknowingly moved in next to their relatives… https://t.co/jai0VJEdPA
Kjetil and Zoe Goten moved to Los Angeles from the UK in 2019, but with neighbors close relationship they had. That all changed after the United States imposed a quarantine due coronavirus. due reduction of social contacts, the couple began to communicate more with residents in their street and became friends with Erica and Jen Strom.
once neighbors started talking about Norway and found that 45-year-old Kjetil grew up in Norway, and 38-year-old Eric has Norwegian roots. Stroma also noted that they are familiar with the name of the neighbors and somebody of their relatives once lived on the island with a similar name Noten, writes The Washington Post.
on the same day Strom I called my mom and asked her to find a family book that his ancestors were from the XVIII century. In the family archives they found a photo of a man with the last name Noten. After that Eric contacted Cetelem, and the one with his mother in Norway. Within a few days men found out that they have a common great-great-grandfather — Jacob Roten. The funny thing is that the common ancestor lived in the same house where over 100 up his great-grandson Kjetil.
Both families were delighted with this coincidence, in fact, not knowing anything about each other, they settled in the same city and on the same street. Now they talk every day and look forward to the end of the quarantine, to embrace and to celebrate this event at the table.
Catherine Gura
