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5 True, Old-Fashioned Christmas Miracles That Will Restore Your Hope for The...
The Mail Train’s Gift: A Life-Changing Message My mother told me this story from World War I many years ago. Christmas 1917 was coming, but because her brother Archie Clikeman was missing in action...
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4 Heartwarming True Tales of Vintage Christmas Kindness
The Postman Lifted Us From Depression My parents, at the height of the Depression, were forced to go on home relief, which is known as welfare today. It was 1935, when I was 10 years old, and we lived...
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Why a Simple Penny Was My Christmas Miracle
My dad loved pennies, especially those with the elegant stalk of wheat curving around each side of the ONE CENT on the back. Those were the pennies he grew up with in Iowa during the Depression, and...
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The Year My Mother Saved Christmas With a Sad, Threadbare Tree
As a five-year-old, I didn’t know how poor we were. We had just moved to Manhattan and knew no one in that city. My father would not be home that Christmas Eve; he was in the Army serving overseas. My...
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My Most Unforgettable Christmas Present: How the Gift I Wanted Least Became...
When I was a boy of nine in the little town of Doylestown, Pennsylvania, I used to mow the lawn of Mrs. Long, an elderly lady who lived across from the Presbyterian Church. She paid me very little for...
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A Grieving Soldier Is Visited By the Divine In This Unforgettable Christmas...
It was late when I got off duty. I didn’t even stop at the nurses’ barracks to change my uniform, but went directly out into the woods that surrounded the neuropsychiatric wing of the big Army...
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A Depressed Mother, A Lonely Daughter, and Mrs. Reese, the Neighbor Who...
I grew up in a troubled home in the 1970s, on the outskirts of downtown Orlando, Florida. Our subdivision was one of many that backed up to a dwindling orange grove. One remnant farm, an island of...
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How to Treat Frostbite: 4 First Aid Steps to Take Right Away
Frostbite can become a serious issue quickly. Tissues can be permanently damaged if treatment is not given quickly. Look for these frostbite symptoms: • Patient may have pins and needles in...
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First Aid for Hypothermia: 5 Crucial Steps to Follow
When the core body temperature falls below 95 degrees Fahrenheit, the body shuts down the blood supply to the surface blood vessels to keep vital organs such as the heart supplied with blood. This...
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“I Was the Miracle Baby”: How Kerry Albright Survived a Deadly Flood at 9...
Strolling down a street near his Brooklyn, New York, apartment, wearing a polo shirt and jeans, his close-cropped hair masking a slight bald patch, 41-year-old Kerry Albright appears unassuming,...
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This Single Mom Invented a Medical Device to Cure Her Daughter’s Chronic Pain
Shelly Henry, 45, chief revenue officer for a medical-device company in Oklahoma City, still chokes up when she recalls the day nearly 12 years ago when her daughter, Kara, almost died. Kara, then...
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A Devastating Hurricane Couldn’t Stop This Father and Son From Rescuing Their...
The city of New Orleans does not sit at the mouth of the Mississippi River, as is often thought. The river continues southeast past the Big Easy for about 100 miles through a series of bends, where...
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A Teacher Remembers: The Student Who Taught Me My Greatest Lesson About Being...
I was two years shy of becoming a mother when I learned my greatest lesson about parenting. This information was not gleaned from a New York Times bestseller, a renowned pediatrician, or an...
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When Paramedics Needed a Sign Language Interpreter, This 11-Year-Old Stepped...
On a cold afternoon in January 2015, Yesenia Diosdado, 11, got off a school bus in Lenexa, Kansas, near the apartment building where she lives with her family. When the bus pulled away, Yesenia saw...
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What These Teens Did For a Paralyzed War Veteran Will Bring Tears to Your Eyes
As injured Army veteran Jerral Hancock maneuvered his electric wheelchair into a classroom at Lancaster High School, Jamie Goodreau’s students fell into a rapt silence. It was May 29, 2013, Jerral’s...
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The Incredible Story of a Rescued Penguin That Saved a Misfit Student From...
In 1975, Englishman Tom Michell was living in South America, where he taught at an English-language boarding school in Argentina. On winter break, he went to Uruguay and on the beach came across an...
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He Waited 39 Years to Apologize to the Teacher He Wronged. Too Late to Say...
When he was 12 years old, the boy did something he only later realized probably hurt his seventh-grade teacher. It was minor—he was, after all, a kid. But in time, when he was older and wiser, he...
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Buzz Bissinger: The Incredible Lessons I Learned From My Son With Brain Damage
My son Zach was born with brain damage that occurred during his birth. His brother Gerry—older by three minutes—is fine. Zach is now 24, but his comprehension skills are roughly that of an eight- or...
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Terror on the Cliff: How One Man Narrowly Escaped a Gruesome Fall in the...
Dogtooth Peak, in Central California’s Sierra National Forest, towers 10,300 feet above sea level, jutting from the surrounding rock like a hand reaching for the sky. On a Thursday morning last...
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My Escape From North Korea: How I Moved On From a Life of Horrors
I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea and that I escaped from North Korea. Both of these events shaped me, and I would not trade them for an ordinary and peaceful life. But...
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