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Top Photographers Choose the Pictures That Make Them Happy
Elation Photographer Marcus Bleasdale: “In 2007, Human Rights Watch asked me to photograph the street children in Kinshasa, a war-ravaged city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I took this photo...
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The Heartbreaking Reason This Little Boy Was Born Without Eyes
When Donna Castillo pushed her daughter in a stroller on their daily walk around a Miami neighborhood in 1989, she could never have known that the repercussions of that day would echo in her family’s...
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4 First, Humble Jobs of CEOs That Will Remind You Anything Is Possible
Cleaning bathrooms You never know where greatness will come from—just check out the stories of nine ordinary people who changed history. CEO of OnFire Books, Tammy Kling has always had the urgency to...
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This Is the Best Way to Lift Your Mood—You Just Have to Get Up Early to Do It
There are no guarantees that watching the sunrise will take away your seasonal sadness. The sun doesn’t have an ad budget or marketing campaign to make promises. However, sunlight is free and extremely...
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At This Library, You Can “Borrow” People Instead of Books
Why do you go to the library? For books, yes—but you like books because they tell stories. (Here are 20 books you definitely should have read by now.) You hope to get lost in a story or be transported...
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11 Tear-Jerking Stories of Rescue Dogs That Found the Homes They Deserve
Love at first picture Wiley is a special case because we are his fourth home. He was found as a stray by Friends with Four Paws Rescue in Oklahoma, was fostered there until he was sent to Brooklyn,...
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This Heartbreaking Story Will Remind You Just How Much Kindness Really Matters
Reader’s Digest has teamed up with Kindness Matters to encourage people do “Do Something Nice Today.” Join us. Peyton James was an amazing boy. He had beautiful red hair, piercing hazel eyes that...
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10 Photos That Will Remind You There’s Still Good in the World
Doing all they can The line to donate blood is now wrapped through the parking lot & around the the block. #PrayForVegas pic.twitter.com/wbeFIK46t9 — Yasmeen Hassan (@YasmeenTV) October 2, 2017...
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Gallatin, Tennessee: The Town That Rose Above Tragedy to Become the Nicest...
Reader's DigestGallatin, Tennessee Is the Reader's Digest Nicest Place in America 2017The inspiring story of the kind and caring people of Gallatin, Tennessee. OnApril 6, 2016, James Spray, a white...
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Meet the 10 Nicest Places in America
With America more divided than ever, where can you turn to meet nice people who treat each other with the respect and civility that we all deserve? As Reader’s Digest recently found out in its...
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This Is the One Move You Need to Know to Survive a Shark Attack
Just in case you find yourself in the middle of a Sharknado or just in open water on a beach vacation, you’re going to want to know how to survive a shark attack. (Find out all the things you don’t...
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Meet the Woman Who Renovates Chemo Rooms to Brighten Cancer Patients’ Days
When Nancy Ballard, 66, saw her first chemotherapy room in 2011, her heart sank. The walls were empty and drab, and she could tell where old artwork had hung because of the two-toned paint. There was...
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This Man Taught Himself to Play the Trumpet So He Could Honor Fallen Veterans
The commuters in Excelsior, Minnesota, are too busy rushing to work to notice the lone figure climbing up to old Oak Hill Cemetery. He is a tanned, gray-haired man in khakis and a golf shirt, and he...
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This Man is Single-Handedly Keeping His Town Beautiful By Cleaning Up Vandalism
It’s a clear April morning in Olympia, Washington, when Alan Erickson, 63, spots an eyesore on the side of the road. Blotches of black spray paint mar a sign identifying a local forest, and Erickson...
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An Open Letter to the Doctors Who Cared for My Wife During Her Last Days
As I begin to tell my friends and family about the seven days you treated my wife, Laura Levis, in what turned out to be the last days of her young life, they stop me at about the 15th name that I...
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A Hurricane Sunk Their Ship. This Rescue Swimmer Was Their Only Hope of Survival
The Category 4 hurricane bearing down on the Caribbean started as a tropical depression 414 miles out in the Atlantic. Meteorologists paid it little attention—even if it grew, projections showed it...
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15 Stories That Prove It’s Never Too Late to Change Your Life
So often we find ourselves on autopilot—waking up in the same home, putting on the same clothes, taking the same transportation to the same-old job. Even our New Year’s resolutions to change barely...
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This Dad Makes Halloween Costumes For Kids in Wheelchairs–and You NEED to See...
When Ryan Weimer, 38, a nurse in Portland, Oregon, found out that his first son Keaton was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy at just nine months old, he worried his boy would be forever defined...
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10 Nicest Things Strangers Have Done to Say ‘Thank You’ to Veterans
Surprise donor John Branson noticed Edgar Roberts’ Vietnam marine cap in a local Cracker Barrel. The veteran was sitting alone, so Branson shared a meal with the 70 year old and chatted about his son,...
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How to Find More Meaning In Your Life, According to 5 People Who Did
Mental breakthroughs make all the difference The mind is a powerful tool—here are 15 ways reframing your thoughts can change your life. That’s the primary message of Ramit Sethi, a personal finance...
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