Six months ago, Raphael Hameed was walking with his 5-year-old son, Ish, when they were hit by a speeding car. NPR wrote: Raphael was seriously injured, but Ish, his only child, was killed. The driver's sister, Megiddëh Goldston, has formed a bond with the Hameed family and now visits them to help with their day-to-day […]
No matter this man's back story, we just loved this photo. On Christmas Eve in Worcester, Massachusetts, Thomas Joseph Bennet held a sign on the street thanking all those who helped him in the past.
After witnessing the success of the dollar pizza stores in Manhattan, Mason Wartman left his job on Wall Street to move back to Philadelphia to open one of his own. What he didn't know then was that Rosa's Fresh Pizza would become a bastion of kindness for customers paying it forward by buying slices for others.
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Diehard Seahawks fan Sherri Forch has never been to a game. That will change Saturday, when she will not only attend the Seahawks' divisional playoff game in a wheelchair, but be right on the 50-yard line under shelter, thanks to generous fans and family.
Brittney Husbyn had already practiced walking down the aisle with her fiancé Briggs Fussy, but it was 20 years earlier. They got married this weekend decades after serving as ring bearer and flower girl at a wedding in 1995 as 3-year-olds.
The principal of a school outside of Louisville, KY, where 75 percent of students live below the poverty line, realized her students were so poor that most didn't have decent shoes. So she decided to hold a fundraiser, and it succeeded beyond her wildest imagination.
A taxi driver in Philadelphia was "shocked and overjoyed" when he received a $989.98 tip on a $4.31 fare 12 days before Christmas. Taxi driver Oumar Maiga, who always has a smile on his face, was working the late shift for Freedom Taxi service when the generous passenger flagged down his cab for a quick two-minute ride. After finding out the man's evening had been hectic, the mysterious rider said he was going to "take care of him."
A stranger came up to a woman in Windsor, Canada, while she was shopping with her children, and gave her a very touching note that made her day. She was in tears while she described the story saying that the stranger "assured me that I am a great mother even though sometimes every parent questions themselves."
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