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Connect the Dots! All from the same hometown, Dorothy Buchanan, Dorothy Murray and Dorothy Kern – also known as the Three Dots – just celebrated a major milestone! To call them longtime friends is an understatement, as the three friends each celebrated their 100th birthdays this year! The world was a different place when the
When a coffee shop owner learned that the co-owner of a competing coffee shop – who also happened to be her friend – was terminally ill, she decided to close her own business for a day to work for them. Last Wednesday, Pixie Adams, the owner of Moonlight Coffee House in Oak Grove, Oregon, announced
To keep their son from getting upset whenever his mom leaves, these two Japanese parents came up with an ingenious way to comfort him – by having a massive cardboard cutout replace her when she’s away. The kid’s father, Neji Sato, shared videos of the experiment on Twitter, where he explained that their one-year-old boy
A five-year-old boy from Montana diagnosed with medulloblastoma, a rare brain cancer found in the cerebellum, enjoyed a magical sendoff party and dream ‘unicorn ride’ with his community and classmates before leaving for Tennessee to start his treatment. Wyatt Haas had been experiencing headaches and feeling sick before he was diagnosed with brain cancer on
As a gift for his grandchildren, this grandfather from Oregon bought them a vehicle that they will surely love – a small yellow school bus that will take them to school! Doug Hayes has 10 grandkids, and he presented the sweet surprise to them just days before Christmas in his Gladstone, Oregon home. To make
Doggy daycare is one of the biggest trends to have taken over the pet industry in the last few years and it’s easy to see why. We live in an extremely fast-paced and career-oriented society, which means that a big chunk of the population is comprised of full-time workers who are unable to tend to
A Vietnam veteran from Florida named Mike Esmond understood what it was like to live a life of hardship. Back then, he and his three daughters went through a very cold Christmas when their heat and power were shut off due to nonpayment. To prevent other families from going through the same, he paid for
With the help of a kind bus driver, two lost dogs wandering in the frigid night found their way back to their family this holiday season. Milwaukee County Transit System (MCTS) bus driver Jamie Grabowski had just finished her bus route and was heading back to the garage around midnight when something on the side
This science professor at Tidewater Community College has made it his mission to make classroom learning fun by performing demonstrations and sometimes ‘crazy’ stunts during his lectures. The 69-year-old physics professor has been teaching at the Virginia community college since 1974. “It was my very first job out of graduate school,” he told BuzzFeed News.
At 4 in the morning, Jack Jokinen was nudged awake by his wife to tell him that there was a random dog inside their house. Confused about how he managed to get in, he checked their home security footage and finally figured how she did it. Accustomed to early morning wake-ups, Jack thought that his
Through a photo series shared on social media, this portrait photographer is sending an important message to young girls out there – that they can be whoever they want to be. Heather Mitchell was at her eight-year-old daughter’s softball practice chatting with other moms when she received a bothersome remark from one of them about
When Lee Reich is a widow, she had to pay $1,900 for a one-bedroom unit she has been renting. Eventually, the lease got higher and it did not make sense to pay for an empty nest. Her daughter, Stacy Lince also suffered the same ridiculous problem in terms of rent pricing in Santa Rosa, California.
