A former schoolteacher had one wish when she entered hospice care: to reconnect with one of her students, NBA great Michael Jordan.
Ms. Etta was the transportation coordinator at Emsley A. Laney High School in Wilmington, North Carolina when Jordan, 63, was a teenager. She said she wanted to give her former student one last hug.
Getting ahold of the basketball legend didn’t prove easy, but when a hospice care worker named Wendy received a call from an unknown number, the voice on the other end was unmistakable.
“Is this Ms. Etta,” Jordan asked.
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