Abi Healey: My friendship with Angela Berkfield started with new parenting (we were both pregnant for the first time) and quickly moved into common interests and a deep connection.
When my son was born, and wasn't able to nurse effectively, she became one of his milk mamas, stocking our freezer with mason jars full of breast milk. The first summer of our kids' lives, we gardened together; when our babies were just a few months old, she proposed that our families move in together at Amazing Planet Farm in Williamsville. We did so that fall, and lived together for the next 3{1/2} years.