‘How texts to my dead brother brought us together’

After losing her brother to a drug overdose, Ruth Murray found comfort in messaging his old phone number.

When Amber Leinweber was assigned his old number, it was the beginning of a very unexpected friendship. The BBC travelled to Oshkosh, Wisconsin as the pair meet face-to-face for the first time.

Video by Shrai Popat and Dhruti Shah

source: bbc.com

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