STERLING HEIGHTS — Several times a week, Jerry Boekhout and Art Siebert join a group of people who walk at the Sterling Heights Community Center.

The two had been walking together for about a year, but it wasn’t until recently, after a bit of back-and-forth conversation, they realized they shared a connection.

It started with them asking where they grew up — both responded that they lived on Fisher Street in Detroit. Eventually, they realized they grew up together in the same neighborhood and went to school together, Boekhout said.

“We just started talking out here, and then it just clicked,” he said.

When they were in second grade — about 66 or 67 years ago, according to Boekhout — Siebert moved away and the men lost touch with each other.

Boekhout went on to work for Warren-based Co

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