“I’ll never forget the elderly lady who explained she’d not spent a day apart from her bedraggled-looking bears. She cried with joy when I showed her a photo of her beloved bears being hugged by two delighted girls and their smiling mother.”

‘The lives of these cherished friends were lost forever.’: Woman creates second chance business for plushies

‘I noticed an abandoned cart with a giant teddy. I stood, weighing my options. I snatched it out quickly and powerwalked to checkout.’: Mom to son with autism shares advice to younger self, ‘It wasn’t her fault’
“Now, listen, I am not a thief… really, I am not. But you see, I needed that bear. I needed this to be the best gift ever. If you are reading this and you had a teddy bear stolen I am sorry.”

‘Her battle ended, but she was not defeated. She was ready, her time here was fulfilled’: Cancer-stricken mother shares powerful final photo shoot with family
“As Mama lay in her bed, she made sure to tell me what I needed to hear to accept the inevitable. You can never be prepared to lose someone of such value in your life, but she tried to make it painless for us.”