Everyone has a favorite person—someone who inevitably brightens your day with their mere presence. Grandma Honey from Columbus, Ohio, met hers when she traveled to Haiti back in 2010. She went there to help the residents recover after a devastating earthquake hit the country. While there, she became friends with a young man named Johny …
Reunion
A three-year-old dog that went missing for four months is finally home after volunteers rescued him from the California woods. Russ, a pit bull-terrier mix, ran off from his owner, Ricardo Rodriguez, during a camping trip in the Lake Tahoe area in late August. Rodriguez, a traveling nurse, was with four of his friends when …
The journey may have been long and hard, but Martin Hauser finally met his long-lost biological brother and birth mother after decades of trying. Martin, 59, was adopted months after being born in 1962 in North Carolina. He and his sister were told they were adopted at a young age, with Martin being adopted in …
For over eight decades, Betty Grebenschikoff believed her childhood best friend from Germany had died. The last time she saw Ana María Wahrenberg was in 1939, when they were only 9 years old. The girls shared a tearful hug in a Berlin schoolyard before their families were forced to escape the Holocaust during World War …
Some people spend their entire lives never knowing who their biological parents are. Olivia Robles Mauger’s life was like that somehow. She grew up with her mom and a man she thought was her real dad until age 10 when she found out he was actually her stepfather. Thousands of miles away, Vietnam veteran Gary …
Reuniting with loved ones you haven’t seen in years always brings lots of laughter, happy tears, and stories waiting to be told. That’s exactly what happened between a grandpa and his sister who lives in a care facility across the country. Mary Pine, 95, and her brother, Bob Taylor, 84, call each other every day. …
Here’s an extraordinary love story you thought you’d only see in the movies. When Karen Lehmann and Dennis Vinar first crossed paths in the school hallway, they felt an immediate attraction even though they couldn’t be more different. Lehmann was a band member who played the clarinet and an intelligent bookworm who got straight As, …
A 97-year-old World War II veteran reunited with three Italians he almost shot as children during the conflict’s final months. Private Martin Adler was roving the small central Italian village of Cassano di Monterenzio in October of 1944 when he entered what he thought was an abandoned home. The then 20-year-old Adler and another U.S. …
Friendships that bloom during difficult times are extra special. That’s what grew between 3-year-olds Mack Porter and Payson Altice while receiving treatment and battled cancer at Phoenix Children’s Hospital. The pair became fast friends while battling cancer together at the Arizona hospital. Thankfully, both have gone into remission and were sent home earlier this summer. …
When Aisha Nieves lost her dog Kuvo more than two years ago, she thought she would never see him again. But as fate would have it, she was recently reunited with her best friend—and it’s the sweetest reunion you’ll ever see. Aisha was browsing the Lehigh County Humane Society’s (LCHS) website on June 18, hoping …
They say “absence makes the heart grow fonder,” and the reunion between a dog and his grandpa is a beautiful manifestation of what that phrase means. When Hayden Kristal brought Bitsy home five years ago, she introduced the five-week-old pup to her father, Steve. But instead of instant joy, Steve initially felt worried upon seeing …
After two long years, this wandering beagle is finally back home with her family, all thanks to a rescue group and the power of microchip technology. Be sure to reach the end of this article to see their joyful reunion! Two years ago, Brooke Lake experienced one of the worst days of her life when …