Sometimes, the people who become family to us are not the people we were born with.
They are the people who happen to enter our lives at the right moment.
A neighbor who always checks in.
A friend who slowly becomes part of your daily routine.
An older person who begins to feel like a grandparent.
Or someone who, despite having no biological connection to you at all, somehow becomes one of the most important people in your world.
That is what happened between Chris Salvatore and Norma Cook.
Chris was only 31 years old.
Norma was 89.
They had spent years living across the hall from one another in West Hollywood, California. At first, they were simply neighbors. Two people sharing the same building, occasionally exchanging greetings and small conversations.
But as the years passed, something more meaningful developed.
Their relationship became a friendship.
Then it became something that felt much closer to family.
