Hug Your Homies made it to Florence

Walking home from a football match in Florence, I ran into a friend from Northwestern—and spotted someone with her wearing a Hug Your Homies sweatshirt. I didn’t get a chance to ask about it in the moment but later made the connection of how he was connected to Eli, through one of Eli’s best friends Seth.

It stopped me in my tracks. Thousands of miles from home, Eli was connecting people.