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Random Encounter Leads to Diagnosis

A cameraman for “CTV News” in Canada is undergoing a life-changing treatment, all thanks to a random encounter he had while out on assignment. He was putting a microphone on a neurosurgeon when she saw his hands shaking and said, “I can FIX that.”  He’s been suffering from a neurological condition called essential tremor since he was a teenager. She told him he’d need multiple surgeries to put electrodes in his brain.  He…
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Sharing the Good Stuff

A small school district in Ohio set up a microphone in the middle of the hallway, and invited students to share something GOOD that’s happened to them recently.  Like, “someone told me that my hair looked really pretty” . . . and “there’s a new girl at school today, and I think I made a new friend.” They created a montage of the responses and posted it on social media.
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Purple Heart Returned

A Purple Heart is one of the most prestigious awards a member of the military can receive . . . and an official in Illinois just helped the family of a World War Two veteran named James Bennett get it back. James died in 1990 at the age of 76, and he’d apparently left the award in a safe deposit box, which was marked as abandoned.  Now, it has…