Uplifting Stories

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https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/04/150401-travel-adventure-world-countries-ngbooktalk/

How One Man Realized His Dream of Visiting Every Country

Lessons learned from traveling to 196 countries include what old camel meat tastes like and why toilet paper is the best economic indicator.

 

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https://www.mlive.com/ada-cascade/index.ssf/2015/06/high_schools_students_develop.html

It is difficult to determine who was most affected by the outcome – the 4-year-old born without a forearm who can now pick up items with her new hand and ride a scooter like her friends do, or the five Forest Hills Northern seniors who used a classroom 3-D printer to make Maeli Gottschak a prosthetic arm.

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaNsQ-cf2QM

 

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71 year old woman finishes 100 mile endurance race 6 seconds before the 30 hour cutoff...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqKinAETu8E

 

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Pretty sure I couldn't run 100 miles in 30 days

 

[LogGrad98]

Pretty sure I couldn't run 100 miles in 30 days

Um. Pretty sure I wouldn't run. At all. Ever. Unless my favorite baker was about to close and I had to have some spritzkuchen. Then I might jog a bit.

 

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https://www.theguardian.com/lifeand...ence-found-identical-twin-youtube?CMP=soc_567

Experience: I found my identical twin on YouTube

‘She sent me a picture of her adoption records. We had been born in the same clinic. She wrote, “Dude, we’re totally twins!”’

 

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https://www.philly.com/philly/educa...ered_childhood__hope_in_a_college_future.html

Valery Swope, 18, answered her phone one afternoon in March. It was Cabrini College, telling her she had been accepted.

"I feel so great. Oh, my Lord. I've got to tell everybody!"

First, she posed for a selfie. "I've got to take a picture of this face!"

Then she got on the phone.

The first six people she called were two caseworkers with the state child welfare agency, two social workers appointed by the court, a child-advocate in the public defender's office, and an FBI agent. She lamented she didn't have her guidance counselor's number.

This posse of public servants is Valery's rudder in life.
Valery's teenage mother gave birth to her in a bathroom, placed her in a plastic bag, and left her in a boarded-up building in the city's Frankford section, before dawn Jan. 4, 1997.


Read more at https://www.philly.com/philly/educa..._in_a_college_future.html#5ySp6yBSPZPjQemY.99

 

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It's kind of sad how little attention this thread gets...

https://www.ocregister.com/articles/congregation-679848-temple-cohen.html

Dap to Matt Goodman and his fellow Mormon folks...

Rabbi Heidi Cohen chokes up as she speaks about what she and her congregation at Temple Beth Sholom in Santa Ana have been through over the last year and a half.

On Feb. 15, 2014, a malfunctioning refrigerator sparked a huge fire in the temple kitchen. It caused extensive smoke and water damage to the sanctuary and to the ornamental holy ark, which held six torahs including a 275-year-old scroll from the Czech Republic which had been rescued from a Nazi warehouse after World War II.

 

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https://themighty.com/2015/08/hes-n...lity-and-he-runs-his-own-successful-business/

James Hall, better known as “Monnie” by friends and family, lives with cerebral palsy. The 55-year-old, who communicates nonverbally and has limited use of his hands, started his own business making beautiful wreaths out of mesh netting and craft supplies.

 

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https://news.yahoo.com/young-nurse-asked-adopt-newborn-mom-dies-ebola-150518506.html?nf=1

This 2005 photo of then Staff Sgt. Michael Maroney hugging a girl he rescued during Hurricane Katrina went viral earlier this year. Ten years after they met, Maroney and the girl, LeShay Brown, will be reunited.

 

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https://www.sunnyskyz.com/good-news...-Garden-To-Provide-Food-For-An-Entire-Shelter

An innovative homeless shelter in Atlanta is home to a massive rooftop garden, but what makes this garden unique is that the residents of the shelter are the ones who planted it.