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The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is! -- Anne Frank
 
103 Year Old Woman Gets Her Birthday Wish!

I couldn't be happier for this lady and her newly adopted cat. :love_heart: More here.

A week before the birthday party, Debbie Presland, the administrator of the senior living center, asked Lillian what she'd like for her birthday.
"A sweet cat like Sammy," she said, according to Presland.

Lillian's cat Sammy passed away a couple of years ago and she's missed her dearly.

According to Presland, the two are already inseparable. In fact, all Grant could talk about was how she wanted to leave the party to get settled in with her new companion. She even calls Marley, Sammy, after the cat she misses so much.

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Any Good News Stories Out There? Here, I'll Start With One:

You might not expect much grit out of a 17-year-old dog who is deaf and partially blind, but Max has just proven that his disabilities are not going to keep him from being a hero.
The courageous canine spent 15 hours in the harsh, rainy Australian bushland alongside a 3-year-old girl who had wandered away from home earlier this weekend.
The little girl named Aurora first went missing on Friday afternoon. The next day, over 100 police and emergency response members were searching the family’s rural property in hopes of finding the youngster.

Her grandmother, Leisa Bennett was joining the search efforts on Saturday when she heard the sound of Aurora’s crying coming from the top of the mountain.
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As she moved closer to the sound, Max suddenly appeared out of the bush and led Leisa straight to where Aurora was stranded – and the reunion with her family was an emotional one.
“I think [Aurora] was a bit overwhelmed by the tears and the howling, but I explained to her how happy those tears were,” she said. “It could have gone any of 100 ways, but she’s here, she’s alive, she’s well and it’s a great outcome for our family.”
The 3-year-old was located just 1.2 miles away from her family’s house with minor cuts and scrapes.
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“The area around the house is quite mountainous and is very inhospitable terrain to go walking in, so she’d traveled quite a distance with her dog that was quite loyal to her,” SES area controller Ian Phipps told ABC.net.au.
“With the weather last night it’s quite lucky she is well because it was cold, it was cold and raining,” he added.
While it is pretty safe to assume that Max the senior dog was rewarded with a bone for his heroic efforts, he was also named an honorary Queensland police dog for his bravery.


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Long Island cops reunite 14 ducklings with their mom after they waddled into storm drain


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Long Island cops quacked the case Sunday when a mom of 14 ducks lost track of her flock.

Mother's Day was going swimmingly for the unidentified mother duck until around 9:20 a.m., when all 14 of her ducklings wandered into a storm drain near Aletta Place in Bay Shore.

While the mother duck stood by helplessly, someone called 911.

Soon, Suffolk County police were at the scene.

But the rest of the flock wandered further into the drain, out of reach.


A third cop, Officer Steven Damico, applied a high-tech policing technique to the situation.

Damico downloaded a duck call app to his cell phone. Nine ducklings liked the sound enough to waddle back within the officers' grasp.

That left one missing duckling. Emergency Service Officer Carmine Pellegrino nabbed that one with a net.

All 14 ducklings were reunited with their mom, and were last seen happily waddling away from the scene.
 
Great story SB. I really wish there were more nice stories like this in America. Unfortunately, seems like the only times "good stories" come out is at Thanksgiving, Christmas, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Memorial Day and Veterans Day. The rest of the year, well...…...won't go there.
 
Michael Jordan donates two million dollars to the Carolinas for hurricane relief. More here.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Michael Jordan grew up playing high school basketball in Wilmington, North Carolina. So when the former NBA star watched the destruction caused by Hurricane Florence to his hometown and surrounding area, he acted quickly to help.

The six-time NBA champion and Charlotte Hornets owner donated $2 million on Tuesday to assist residents of the Carolinas — $1 million each to the American Red Cross and the Foundation For The Carolinas’ Hurricane Florence Response Fund.

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I read this story a couple days ago which I found to be incredible,heart warming
Vilma Wong age 54 who has worked as nurse in the neonatal intensive for 32 years at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital in Palo Alto Calif got the surprise of her life. One of the hospital's new pediatric residents,Brandon Seminatore, age 28 was once her patient. He was born 26 weeks prematurely,she always wondered what happen to him.What are the odds of this happening. Sue
 
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