Category: Friendship

One boy's serious health challenge inspires a fourth grade teacher to put books and traditional lessons aside to fold 1,000 origami cranes and learn compassion.
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Tear-Inspiring Reason Fourth Grade Teacher Ditched Books And Traditional Lessons

This one here is about so much more than 1,000 origami cranes. It’s a master class in storytelling. In teaching. In compassion. How one teacher, Kristen Rafferty, led her fourth graders at Carondelet Catholic School to care and hold space for their friend, Owen Guertin, as he faced a massive health crisis. All I can say is get ready for your eyes to leak. A lot. Here’s the master storyteller, Boyd Huppert from KARE in Minneapolis. What a beautiful story

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What if you already have the tools you need to get through tough times?
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What If You Have All The Tools You Need To Get Through Tough Times?

That was the easiest birthday gift ever. For the woman who has, Well, a lot. And, And, at the same time, Not the life she planned. She planned on spending the rest of her life with her college sweetheart. The one she’d been married to for 30 years. She planned on setting off on a new adventure with him. Empty nest style, as their youngest headed off to college. He planned on getting to know the company secretary. “Finding himself”

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The gift of watching my friend, Bren McClain's, dream finally come true and almost three decades of trying.
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The Gift Of Watching My Friend’s Impossible Dream Come True

I stood in the back of a bookstore this week and cried. “Something got in my eye,” I would’ve said if anyone asked. I grabbed one of the paper napkins from the table with a plate of cookies to wipe a nose drip away. Classy, I know. I don’t know why I bothered. I love those tears. What prompted them. Besides, no one was looking at me. All eyes focused on her. About 15 feet away stood a friend. A

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A kind stranger invites a lonely widower on a dream fishing vacation after he sees a classified ad looking for a new fishing mate.
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Kind Stranger Takes Lonely Widower On Dream Vacay After Ad For New Fishing Buddy

You don’t have to go fishing far to find a story that will melt your heart like this one. It starts with Ray Johnstone, a lonely widower in Australia who placed an ad for a new fishing buddy when his old friend passed away. Sky News reports that 22-year-old Mati Batsinilas saw that ad and his heart immediately felt for Mr. Johnstone. Fishing? He wanted a buddy to go fish with? Mati decided to up that idea to the next

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Actor Chris Salvatore is best friend with his 89-year-old neighbor, Norma Cook. When Norma took ill, Chris moved Norma in with him to care for her.
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Actor Becomes Best Friend And Caretaker For 89-Year-Old Neighbor

There’s no telling where you might find your best friend. 31-year-old actor Chris Salvatore found his living across the way in his apartment complex in West Hollywood, CA. Her name is Norma Cook. She’s 89-years-old. Their friendship started slowly. Norma would wave from her kitchen window as Chris passed by. He tells the Today Show that one day she invited him in, offered up a glass of champagne and a friendship was born. It might’ve stayed that way. Except, Norma’s

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Waco the old horse and Donnie McAdams have created a beautiful friendship. Two loners who give each other a reason to keep going.
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An Old Horse And His Friend Give Each Other A Reason To Live

Talk about an old horse. You could call Waco, the retired harness racer one of those and simply be reporting a fact. Waco is 40 years old. When you do the horse math, that makes him about 120 in equivalent human years. Living a long time is one thing. Having a reason to do so is a whole other. That’s something loner Donnie McAdams understands. How these two came together in a Vermont barn and how they keep each other

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A bachelor party turns puppy rescue mission when a desperate looking mama dog shows up at the front door of a bachelor party in action in the Tennessee woods.
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Bachelor Party Turns Puppy Rescue Mission x 8

A bachelor party gone to the dogs. Literally! It started as a get away weekend for a bunch of guys in the Tennessee woods. Mitch Craddock tells ABC News that he and his buddies were cooking up some bacon when they noticed a dog, a very hungry looking dog at the front door. Not exactly the kind of girl you’re expecting to show up by surprise at a bachelor party. This dog sent them on an adventure they’ll never forget.

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Heather Krueger has an incredible reason the man who was her liver donor was also at her wedding.
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Beautiful Reason Woman’s Liver Donor Was At Her Wedding

A liver donor was the last thing 27-year-old Heather Krueger thought she would have to think about. Late twenties is a time for thinking about career, building a life, finding love. But about four years ago, Heather suddenly came down with a severe liver disease. Her only option, her only focus, was hoping for a liver transplant. How her story came together. How kindness can lead to such goodness, beyond what you can imagine. Well, that’s a story best told by

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Philadelphia Orchestra trumpet player David Bilger creates enormous opportunity for Afghan teen Baset Azizi.
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American Trumpet Player Creates Symphony of Possibility For Afghan Teen

David Bilger is one of the professional trumpet players in the country. He shows off his talent as principal trumpet player for the Philadelphia Orchestra. But his most inspiring, important performance is being done for an orchestra of one. Oh, but what a one. 17-year-old Baset Azizi believes he was born to play trumpet, as well. He had one big problem. Baset was born and living in Kabul, Afghanistan, a place where you can literally be killed for listening to

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The unexpected treasures I inherited from my mother.
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The Treasures I Never Expected To Inherit From My Mother

They are not mentioned in my mother’s will. And yet, It is so clear she left them to me. True treasures. So grand, I never planned on an inheritance so rich. Probably you should wait, Before you start fantasizing about how I will spend the millions of dollars, Move into incredible homes, Drip myself in sparkling jewels. Let me clarify. My mother passed away last month leaving very few material things. It wasn’t the life she planned. It’s the life

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