Josa Cottle and Maxine Collins are dear friends, the generational divide between them smoothed out by the fact that both now are considered members of the senior age group. But they are only recently reunited.
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Josa Cottle and Maxine Collins reminisce as they sit on the couch in Collins' apartment in downtown Sacramento. Cottle lives in the same building and now cooks and helps care for her former church pastor. Above them are frames full of pictures from Collins' life.
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This photo of the Buds of Promise Choir includes choir director and pastor Maxine Collins, back row right, and, directly in front of her, Josa Cottle, then known as Pat Cole.
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Josa Cottle, 65, left, and Maxine Collins, 90, were reunited in the elevator of their apartments.
