My dad would always start out conversations with''Do you have a girlfriend yet?''

After laughing and saying no hundreds of times I finally found the courage to tell him I was gay. After a long silence and a stressed out face or two, he calmy said, "Oh. Well.... Do you have a boyfriend yet?"

His fair love GMH.

When my parents found out about my lesbian relationship, they threatened to stop helping with college tuition.

My brother told them he would always support me, whatever my sexuality, and that if they wouldn't, he would support me financially until I could be independent.

Loving older brothers GMH.

In the hospital, I passed Cynthia's room, a baby girl with cancer.

Due to her family living far away and having no car, she's spent most of the past year getting treatment alone in the hospital. Tonight, I passed her room and her dad lay in her bed rocking her to sleep. He walked across town just to kiss her goodnight.

A fathers love GMH

(From MMT) Today, at the food court in the mall, a beautiful girl about my age came up to me and hugged me with tears in her eyes.

Once she calmed down, I realized that I had pulled her out of a bathtub a month earlier, her wrists covered in slashes.

I am an EMT, and her gesture of appreciation GMH

My husband is deployed and I am 2 weeks in of being a 'single' mom of 2.

I was in the bathroom having a cry, since I refuse to let my kids see me upset. I walked out and my 3yr old hugged my legs, looked up at me, and said "I miss daddy too... We can cry together."

My 'baby's' love for me and his Dad GMH

A woman in the far section of Long Island, NY needed a liver transplant.

There was a liver in South Bronx hospital but it could not be moved. A police officer drove her in the middle of a snow storm. With the help of the highway crew, she was able to get the liver 7 minutes before it was no longer viable.

The crew of New York GMH

This morning I was working in the hospital with children who have terminal diseases. We were decorating masks.

A six year old boy, dying of neuroblastoma, wrote on his mask "Save Haiti - They need help"

His ability to see the world beyond his own disease GMH

Last week I found out that my grandmother is dying of cancer.

I'm currently an exchange student so going home meant canceling my exchange. When my Japanese friends found out, they raised enough money for a round trip flight for me to see her.

Best friends even though we speak different languages GMH