Love is all you need
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‘Our foster son came home with Family Tree homework. Seems innocent enough—until you have a kid whose tree has gone through a hurricane’
“Who are we? Are we family?”

Don’t tell me how lucky I am to have a good husband
“Am I thankful to have him? Yup. Lucky? No.”

‘Everything Will Be OK’: Woman gets awe-inspiring sign after husband’s ‘serious cancer scare’
“It’s amazing how powerful reassurance and hope are – how calming it can be when we feel sure that “everything will be ok.”

‘They’ll never forget how you made them feel’: Assisted Living employee’s touching account of her Alzheimer’s patients
“The residents may not remember my name, or the activities we did earlier in the day, but they do remember that they were cared for, they remember that someone took the time to listen to them, and they remember that someone looked beyond their debilitating disease and saw a person.”

‘It cost the man almost $900:’ Stranger buys ticket for airman to visit her dying father
“My father’s health took a nosedive and he wasn’t expected to live more than a couple days.”

‘My good friend Thomas sits here’: Selfish man learns eye-opening lesson from foreign student
“The last thing I want to do is give a guy who barely speaks my language high fives at 8 in the morning.”

Imagine being loved anyway
“I am convinced more than ever that trust is built not because you are loved, but because someone loved you anyway. They loved you when you were angry, or messy, or cranky or a total and complete pain in the butt.”

The call came at midnight, ‘We have a 3-year-old girl at the hospital. Her mom was shot, Her dad has been arrested. Can you come pick her up?’
“Calls from DHS are like a Create-Your-Own-Adventure Game. Each ‘yes’ takes your family on a wild new adventure you never expected.”

What I want to say to my mom, who ‘drugged’ me
“Thank you for ignoring the people who judged you.”

‘In tragedy, gifts will blossom’: Heartbroken wife thankful her children now have ‘two daddies’
“I knew in my heart that I was watching two daddies dancing with their daughter and I couldn’t help but feel so much love.”