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After Living on the Streets, This Man Takes Every Opportunity to Help Others
“Sometimes in life you’re called upon, and you’ve got to act,” says Jean-Paul LaPierre. Jean-Paul “J.P.” LaPierre is no stranger to long, strange trips. When he was young, he worked as a master pastry...
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A Toddler Was Playing on Train Tracks as a Train Approached—The Conductor’s...
A dawning sun silhouetted the massive form of the freight train. Loaded with fuel, water, and sand for traction, the lead locomotive weighed in at 410,000 pounds—slightly less than a 747 jumbo jet....
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This Man Beheaded a Snake—And It Still Bit Him
Before the incident—before his body became a battleground for competing poisons and his story the subject of zoological curiosity—Jeremy Sutcliffe had actually liked snakes. He’d found them beautiful,...
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A Football Player Decided to Donate Bone Marrow—He Never Imagined That It...
When Mike Mushaw swabbed his cheek to join the national bone marrow registry nearly three years ago, he never really gave it a second thought. After all, he did it only because his college football...
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Read One Teacher’s Genius Response to the Question “What Do You Make?”
He says the problem with teachers is What’s a kid going to learn from someone who decided his best option in life was to become a teacher? He reminds the other dinner guests that it’s true what they...
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13 Secret Chambers Inside Famous Landmarks
The bomb shelter in the White House You’d think the White House would have lots of secret spaces, but there’s only one you’re allowed to know about without security clearance, and even that’s not...
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The Two Most Important Things My Dad Passed Down to Me: My Love of Bikes and...
Growing up in St. Petersburg, Florida, my dad had a paper route on his bicycle and then his scooter—perhaps discovering then his love of two wheels. I picture him as a teenager on his Vespa, sky blue...
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What It’s Like to Work at a State Health Helpline During Coronavirus
On April 13, Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced that our state was launching a warmline. Unlike the health hotline that relates to questions about the virus itself, the warmline is all about...
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30 Motivational Quotes from Eternal Optimists
Motivational quote #1 “Find the joy. When you feel it, let it wash over you… take a moment to appreciate it. Be grateful for the people in your life, for waking up feeling good and pain free, and for...
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14 Heartwarming Stories of Nurses Who Went Above and Beyond Their Call of Duty
When it comes to kindness, compassion, and caring for others, nurses have us all beat. They work long shifts doing many of the tiny, important tasks that keep us healthy, everything from school nurses...
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I Rescue 100 Cats a Year—Here’s What I Want You to Know
I live in New York City, and my first “official” cat rescue was 18 years ago. Sylvester (the cat) was dipped in some kind of commercial adhesive and glued to Amsterdam Ave at 190th street. He was in...
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Her Hometown Was Broken After Multiple People Took Their Lives, so She Set...
Amy and Jake Wolff, along with daughters Harper (left) and Avery, planted the first batch of Don’t Give Up signs all around Newberg, Oregon. The signs appeared practically overnight. They’d been staked...
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Students Noticed One Boy Was Wearing the Same Clothes Every Day, so They...
Todd, center, wearing clothes that Graham, left, and Garrett gave him Michael Todd wore the same clothes every day for the first three weeks of school. When the other kids began to notice that he was...
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In a Freak Accident, This Woman Was Shot in the Neck with an Arrow and It...
After we published “How Is He Still Alive?” about a ten-year-old boy who survived a harrowing head injury caused by a skewer, we received a letter from Donna Barbour. Barbour had her own story to tell,...
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My Best Friend Scammed Me Out of $92,000, Forcing Me into Bankruptcy
I fell hard for one of the oldest cons in the book. But this scheme wasn’t cooked up by some fictional Nigerian prince soliciting me through a sketchy e-mail. I fell under the spell of an immensely...
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How We Paid Off $18,000 in Debt in 18 Months
When Sherrie and Michael Lloyd first got married, they had nine credit cards between them, and they were piling up significant debt. Six years later, this southern California couple has two kids under...
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Animals That Made It to Space Before You Did
This space program has been tested on animals “In the early days of rocket science, no one knew what the effects of weightlessness would be,” writes Space.com. So rocket scientists launched animals—...
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This 92-Year-Old Man Was Still an Accomplished Hiker—But Then He Went Missing
Bill McDonnell was going crazy. Deer season had begun, but it was colder than usual, so here he was, sitting among the mounted bucks inside his house in Winchester, Virginia, watching winter through...
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5 Split-Second Decisions People Made That Saved Their Own Lives
What to do when you’re: kidnapped at gunpoint Around 9:30 on a cold March morning, a 17-year-old girl was carjacked at gunpoint in Wildwood, New Jersey. This was unexpected. The identity of the woman...
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Moving My Family to the “Worst” Place in America Was the Best Decision I Ever...
The author with his wife, Briana, and their children, William (far left), three, and twins Charles and Jack, six What was it that stopped the train that day? Signal problems? Wet leaves? A body on the...
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