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Single Mom Brought to Tears After Stranger Buys Dinner, Leaves Note

A stranger in Durham, North Carolina restored the faith in her own parenting abilities that one single mom was feeling on a particularly hard night. The mom, whose kids are often hard to handle in restaurants, received a kind note applauding her patience and parenting skills from a young man at a nearby table. After signing the note, Jake even paid for the family's dinner and included a Pizza Hut Gift Card for the next time they wanted to dine out.

03 November 32 Views

After Boy is Bullied for Pink Shoes Entire School Goes Pink

In honor of his mother, a breast cancer survivor, and for Breast Cancer Awareness month, Ryan Marotta bought pink sneakers to wear to school. But, some of his middle school classmates harassed him because he was a boy wearing pink. When his friends found out why he was wearing the shoes, everyone started wearing pink.

05 November 35 Views

Sending Out Shoeboxes Filled with Happiness for Women

Eva Whitmore decided she would use her exceptional organizational talents to spread some happiness to women living in shelters. Because of Whitmore, her city of Winnipeg now benefits from The Shoebox Project, a Canadian non-profit group that distributes shoeboxes filled with items a woman would enjoy, but would not splurge on for herself.

05 November 40 Views

This OB/GYN Rocks Out Before Undergoing Mastectomy (WATCH)

She may be atuned to the importance of the mind-body connection because moments before surgery to remove her breasts, an Ob/Gyn and mother of two, spread joy in the operation room by playing music and busting a move to Beyonce's "Get Me Bodied" alongside her surgical team.

08 November 40 Views

Incredible Time-lapse Shows Homeless Man's Transformation

Never underestimate the power of a makeover. This homeless veteran held a negative self-image of himself and suffered from alcoholism. Watch the transformation after he gets a haircut, shave and new clothes from the Degage Ministries. He suddenly can see some potential in his life -- and now he is making the changes needed to get back on track.

08 November 44 Views

Little Boy Upset About Wearing Glasses Gets Support on Facebook

Noah Fisher was devastated when an optician told him he'd have to wear glasses, fearing that he would be laughed at. But his mom, Lindsey, set up a Facebook group called Glasses for Noah, and encouraged friends and family to send pictures of themselves wearing glasses. It grew beyond Lindsey's circle and thousands have posted pics.

30 November 45 Views

Student's Speech Brings Tears to Some Who'd Bullied Him

A teenager, who endured years of bullying, brought his classmates to tears at a school assembly that was later broadcast by a documentary in Britain. Educating Yorkshire placed cameras around the school and revealed a powerful breakthrough moment with a student who stammered, and his subsequent speech in front of the whole school.

10 November 50 Views

Soldier Who Suffered Severe Injuries in Iraq Inspires Town with Positive Attitude

When the students in a U.S. history classes learned that local war hero Jerral Hancock had once got stuck in his modest mobile home for half a year when his handicapped-accessible van broke down, and that the hallways of his tiny house were so narrow he couldn't get his wheelchair through most of them, they decided to build him a home. And, that's just what they did.

13 November 30 Views

Hundreds of Strangers Flock to Funeral for WWII Soldier Who Died Alone

His death at 99, one of the last survivors of successful British battles of World War II, might have been a lonely service in an almost empty chapel. But on Monday, after a newspaper appeal led to an internet campaign highlighting the forgotten war veteran, hundreds of people who never knew him came to pay their respects at his funeral – poignantly held at 11am on Armistice Day, 11/11

13 November 29 Views

WWII Letters Reveal Parents' Untold Love Story

As Darrow Beaton was dying from lung cancer in 2008, the World War II veteran mailed his eldest daughter four boxes of family photos. Hidden away under those photos were hundreds of love letters, some nine pages long, single spaced on a typewriter. They were on onionskin and fancy hotel stationery. There were postcards and telegrams -- all written between December 1941 and November 1945. Beaton, a private man, had never revealed any details about his past.

14 November 31 Views

New Billboard Proclaims 'You Are So Freaking Awesome'

Another randomly positive billboard has popped up in Portland this week. The yellow sign towering above Sandy Blvd., at 35th street, declares, You are so freaking awesome.

15 November 27 Views

Never Adopted, 19 Year-old Gets First 'Real' Thanksgiving With New Family

A young man of 19 will sit down to his first 'real' Thanksgiving after a Texas TV station aired a story in September about how he had aged out of the foster care system, without ever finding a family. After the broadcast, which showed him living in his car, emails came pouring in with offers of money for food and rent, and new tires. But an even better offer came in from the Hunt family.

17 November 37 Views