Instant Best Friends
About 60 years ago, Walter MacFarlane and Alan Robinson (who everyone calls Robi) met in the 6th grade. The two young boys who lived down the road from each other in Honolulu, Hawaii, went to the same school called Punahou Elementary (which was also Barack Obama’s alma mater). From the minute they met, the boys were instant best friends and did absolutely everything together.
Walter Macfarlane, left, and Alan Robinson. Source: CNN
Walter and Robi shared the same interests. They both played on their high school football team, loved playing games together, like cribbage, and enjoyed being outdoors and exploring more than anything else. Yet the activities they did together weren’t the only things two boys had in common. Walter and Robi also bonded over the fact that neither one knew much about where they came from.