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My family and I disowned my sister for her years of her drugs and alcohol abuse. I found out she was in a homeless shelter so I picked her up and took her in. She has been sober for a year, and helps my brother every day with his baby because his wife is terminally ill with cancer. Now, she is the one holding the family together. GMH

I work in a bank - a place where good news is hard to come by recently: Today I spoke with a gentleman who told me he needed to know how much money he had. When I asked if he had a large purchase coming up, he said yes. "I'm buying clothes for the man who asks me for a quarter every day on my way to school," he replies. This gentleman was 12. GMH

A little girl was dying of cancer and her younger brother had a match for the bone marrow she needed. The doctors told him it was a matter of life and death. After he had the surgery, he asked the doctors how long he had to live. He thought if he gave his bone marrow to let his sister live he would die but he did it anyway. GMH

Today, while at work a young boy (about 5) and his father came through my register. The dad scolded him for touching everything saying that the lady would call the cops and they'd both get sent to jail. He grinned up at his dad and said 'If we're in jail we can play together everyday!' His innocence GMH.

Recently, I volunteered at a local foster home. I was drawing with the kids and one of them made a drawing of two stick figures holding hands. I asked him to tell me about it and he exclaimed, "It's love!." A 7 year old with no family explained to me what love is, he GMH.

Today, I found GMH. After reading all the heartwarming stories, I walked into my room, and tore my suicide journal to shreds. I'm shaking out of happiness. GMH.

We were having some financial trouble due to some medical emergencies, and were not going to be able to make rent.I put in our notice, and the landlord asks how much we COULD afford to pay - I told her maybe $500, much less then we were paying. She lowered our rent to $500, permanently. She GMH.

My friend Emily really wanted to go to a concert.. They've made such a difference in her life, saving her from suicide and such, but she didn't have the money to go. It turns out that the band actually took notice of it through her Myspace, and arranged for her to receive a free backstage pass. GMH!

Today, I fell in Love with my love of my life. I've been single for 20 years and i'm 58. GMH

i was sitting on the bus depressed and i had this little girl looking at me and smiled and asked "you look sad..did your fish die? my sisters fish died and she was sad..but then she got another one and was happy again so don't worry..you can get another fish" and then got off the bus with her mom.

A few years ago, my mother had a minor operation. The morning of the surgery, we were in the admissions line, and she was crying and scared of going under the knife. The woman in front of us in line spent 20 minutes talking to her, consoling her, etc. Then we asked her what she was there for: surgery to remove a brain tumor. Her strength GMH.

My family lives from paycheck to paycheck, and it often means that we have to go without groceries. When I overcame my pride and managed to tell my best friend about our money problems, she bought me lunch every single day for my entire grade eleven school year and wouldn't let me try to pay her back. She GMH.

I was a single mom waitressing when my daughter had her first seizure. She needed tests and an 80 dollar co-pay I didn't have. I asked my boss to pick up hours and she told me no. An elderly man at my table's dinner cost 17 dollars. He left $100 and a note: "My daughter had seizures, too." GMH

My little brother was very sick with Pneumonia, and my parents hadn't been sleeping well, having to get up and help him every few hours to change the settings on the air purifier to make him comfortable. One morning, my dad was sleepwalking around the house, telling us he was "Making a robot" to help Alex. Being a loving dad, even while asleep, GMH

I suffer from severe depression. I try to keep that part of me away from friends because I'm worried they'll judge me for it. After revealing this to a dear friend via email, he went silent. I went to bed feeling worse than ever. Early the next morning, there was a knock at the door. He had driven all night to see me, just to give me a hug. GMH.

A long time ago, I was on the verge of committing suicide when a guy came to the roof to have lunch. He saw me climbing over the railing and asked me to share his lunch with him. After receiving my puzzled look, he explained, "everyone should die happy. or at least with a full stomach." We celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary last month. GMH.

My family & I got seperated in New York City when I was little. Scared, I sat crying on the sidewalk as tons of people passed by. A homeless man picked me up, comforted me, & carried me to a police officer, who found my parents. He had a long beard & I asked if he was Jesus. He laughed so hard he cried. He GMH.

Lately my dad has been really angry and distant, and i feel like it's just wearing my mom down. I went home to visit today and found a journal in the bathroom. Each day my dad writes a new thing he loves about my mom and leaves it for her to read. GMH

2 boys at my church adopted a child from Africa, and told their mom that they wanted to give her all their allowance for the rest of the year. Then, they went home and began stuffing toys in bags, giving most of what they had to their mom and asking her to send it to their orphan friend. They GMH.

A few years ago, I was sitting on a bus in the Dominican Republic with many other tourists waiting to go back to our resort. It was hot and many children were complaining to their parents. Then one man got up, counted the children and got off the bus. He went to the ice cream shop and bought every child an ice cream cone. He GMH and ice cream.

On the weekend my friend accidentally left her wallet, which only had 35c in it, in the back of a taxi. Four days later, she found her wallet in her mail box, with $50 and a note inside: "We can see you need some money, so we're sending you some! - Marge and Jim (Parents of 4 previously "always poor" uni students). Their kindness GMH.

When I was sixteen I went on a train ride to Chicago. I ended up sitting next to a young man from Pakistan. We had a six hour conversation about my struggle with religion. Before he got off at his stop he said, "You do good for goods sake. My God would be proud of you." His encouragement GMH.