3-Year-Old Finds Unlikely Playmate in His 89-Year-Old Neighbor

Friendships form over a number of things, from a favorite film to a common interest. For Emmett Rychner and Erling Kindem, that thing was a tomato. Erling, an 89-year-old World War II veteran, lived next door to Rychner's family for many years. But he didn't talk to them until Emmet, a 3-year-old, noticed his neighbor's garden. "Every time he saw me out there, he'd come running over," Erling tells a local news station. And then "[Emmett would ask] 'Erling, got any 'matoes?'" Ever since that exch...