"Won't you be my neighbor"

Mr Rogers was on television during a slightly kinder era and Tom Hanks portrayed him very well on film. 

There is a sequence in the movie where Mr Rogers takes the subway and some school kids spontaneously break into his show's theme song. Afterwards the man accompanying him who is his biographer is shown the sign language equivalent of the word friend. 

Here is a moving comment I read recently which was inspired by that movie scene: 

"Once when I worked in a deli there was a deaf girl named Angelica. She really had no friends except for those who felt sorry for her. So once on my lunch break, I pointed at her and pointed towards myself and used this same sign of interlocking fingers and she hugged me so tightly I thought she was going to slap me but she knows how much this sign meant to her. I'm sure she went home and told her parents or room mates that for once I'm her life another employee, a stranger, showed that I loved her. She was my friend"