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The videos are almost always the same. You never see the faces, or even the old woman’s hands because she’s a bit too short, just the food she has prepared for her neighbours.
It could be a plate, or maybe a pot, or sometimes a platter. Peel back the foil or cling wrap to reveal fish, chicken or soup. You can hear her voice from the other side of the fence, sometimes she asks the young man if he has a girlfriend yet.
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“Thank you, Yiayia,” the neighbour says, using the Greek word for grandmother, and the clip ends.
It’s these simple videos documenting the relationship between a young man who lives in Melbourne’s northern suburbs and his sweet elderly Greek neighbour that have made the Instagram page ‘Yiayia Next Door’ a social media sensation with nearly 25,000 followers.
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On the surface, the story appears to be little more than that, an unlikely friendship built on food. But this neighbourly bond is far deeper than most could imagine: an amazing tale of love forged in tragedy.
“It’s kind of like that Home Improvement show with the neighbour next door,” says Daniel Mancuso.
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