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Is life really unfair?
Yesterday I was cleaning my room and I found a note stuck in between my 10 year old Oxford dictionary & the note was I wrote this note in 2014…
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Which people prove that humans are capable of changing themselves?
Meet Oskar — A successful German businessman. He was greedy. He was a womanizer. He was a member of the Nazi Party. At one point, he was serving as a…
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I happened to look over and saw a Sheriff pumping gas
I happened to look over and saw a Sheriff pumping gas, so I walked over and politely asked if he could help me. I was alone and 4 hours from…
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At 16, Cyntoia Brown was sentenced to life in prison for killing a man
At 16, Cyntoia Brown was sentenced to life in prison for killing a man. She had survived many rapes and assaults and was often sold for drug money by her…
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What parenting move was the most “pot calling the kettle black” you’ve ever seen?
In 1940, dad left the family farm to be the first person in his family to go to college. Twice each year, he hitchhiked 164 miles to get home. At…
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This is a photo of my father.
It looks like a perfectly normal photo of a 91-year-old man. So, what’s “heart-pinching” about it? I’d arrived the day before to visit him in the facility he’d lived with…
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When in a combat zone, what is the first thing that becomes apparent with how a seasoned soldier vs a fresh recruit performs, one that cannot be bridged with any kind of training?
Before you go on your first combat mission, your squad leader will tell you the following: “Stay close to your buddy (usually an experienced soldier), watch what he does, keep…
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Imagine for a moment you were born in the year 1900
Imagine for a moment you were born in the year 1900. At age 14, World War I breaks out, ending at age 18, leaving 22 million dead. Shortly after, a…
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Freddie Mercury said to Mary Austin in his will
Freddie Mercury said to Mary Austin in his will: “If things had been different you would have been my wife, and this would have been yours anyway.” Mary met Mercury…
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I was standing in line at the McDonald’s
"I was standing in line at the McDonald's (Pilot Truck Stop) in Cartersville, GA placing my order, when this deputy and a man (who appeared to be homeless), walked in…