Kelvin Lewis, 18, and his best friend Afonso Slater, 18, have weathered a lot during their longtime friendship - including the loss of their respective parents to HIV/AIDS, international adoptions and being accepted into the same American colleges. The teens, who gave one another much-needed support in a Mozambique orphanage after their mothers died, were adopted - unknowingly - by two Gilbert, Arizona, families in 2008. The Lewis and Slater families didn't know one another and had no idea the boys were best friends when they signed the adoption papers. Kelvin and Afonso chalk it up to fate. "The only way this...
- 4/1/2016
- by Rose Minutaglio, @RoseMinutaglio
- PEOPLE.com
Kelvin Lewis, 18, and his best friend Afonso Slater, 18, have weathered a lot during their longtime friendship - including the loss of their respective parents to HIV/AIDS, international adoptions and being accepted into the same American colleges. The teens, who gave one another much-needed support in a Mozambique orphanage after their mothers died, were adopted - unknowingly - by two Gilbert, Arizona, families in 2008. The Lewis and Slater families didn't know one another and had no idea the boys were best friends when they signed the adoption papers. Kelvin and Afonso chalk it up to fate. "The only way this...
- 4/1/2016
- by Rose Minutaglio, @RoseMinutaglio
- PEOPLE.com
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