Many seniors talk about friends that they have lost or those that have come and gone throughout their lives. It isn’t often you hear about the friendships that are rekindled. The story of a rekindled friendship between two residents at Belvedere Senior Housing has restored faith in the power of having friends.

Shirley and Avelina are a great example of true friends. While living in another senior housing facility, not far from our own, these two ladies became close friends. Over the years, they discovered the many things they have in common as well as their strong love for family and faith. They talked every day, shared meals and even “adopted” each other’s family for their own. Sharing holidays, birthday parties and family functions together was the new norm. Shirley and Avelina are the best of friends.