Vice President Kamala Harris is one of the busiest people on the planet but she took the time last week to surprise an old friend with a phone call just to have a "chat".
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Kamala grew up with Stacey Johnson-Batiste in Berkeley, California, and their parents were also close friends.
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Despite Kamala's new role as Vice President of the United States, the 57-year-old still finds time for her friends, and Stacey revealed she recently received a call while Kamala was between meetings.
"She did surprise me with a phone call last Tuesday," Stacey shared.
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"She just missed me and just wanted to chat. She had a few minutes in between meetings. It was just girlfriends catching up."
"We still talk to each other as we've always done," she told People.
Stacey was at the inauguration in January
"She's concerned about how I'm doing. What I'm doing, how my kids and my mother are - things of that sort. I shared with her that I recently moved. We are the same friends that we've always been."
The pair met as children, and in 1994 Stacey and her then-husband and their children moved into the same building as Kamala in Oakland.
Stacey, who was at the inauguration in January, has now written a book about her childhood memories, and she wrote that those years in the condo building were "a spectacular time in our lives".
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"We were both active and busy and flush with all the excitement of that early adult independence. As a priceless bonus, I never felt alone, for though Kamala and I were carving out very different life paths for ourselves, on any given evening I would just pop down to her condo carrying a glass of wine to chat with her and catch up," she revealed.
Stacey's book, Friends from the Beginning: The Berkeley Village That Raised Kamala and Me, is a memoir about her lasting friendship with Kamala and the values they both inherited from their community.
"I really hope that the reader gets a good sense of sisterhood, of friendship, maybe a little glimpse into Berkeley, what it would be like back then … I want people to really see her," Stacey added.
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