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Gloria & Ann: The Spiritual Power of Friendship

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Ann Newman was being treated for pneumonia in Good Samaritan Medical Center when the woman who cleaned and sterilized her room, an environmental services worker, started singing. The tune lifted Ann’s spirits, and she asked what she was humming. Gloria Gonzales replied that it was a God song sung in Spanish. Ann asked if Gloria would sing it again, and their friendship began.