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Today, I came out of the closet to my extremely-Christian parents after hiding it in fear for more than seven years. They hugged me and told me that no matter what path I chose, they would always love me for who I am. :) GMH

I was diagnosed as a diabetic when I was five years old.

My brother who was turning three at the time saw me cry after getting an insulin shot. He walked over to my mom and asked, 'Mom, can I have diabetes, too? I don't want her to be alone.'

My brother, now and then, GMH.

Today, my friend told her father she was gay.

He turned and left silently, and she cried, thinking he wouldn't accept her. About an hour later, he came back with a gay pride flag and a stuffed animal dolphin and said, ''Did you know 40% of the dolphin population is gay?''

Her dad GMH.

I woke up one morning to hear the birds outside my window and my mother cooking breakfast downstairs. I've never cried so much in my entire life. I had been deaf since the age of 8.

Today, my aunt dragged me along to the mall to go shopping. While in the store, she critisized me, calling me fat and comparing me to 'Ugly Betty'. When I walked out of the store, a boy held the door open and whispered 'I don't know what she's talking about'. 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

When my sister was younger she came home from school one day and demanded I take her to the library so she could get books on sign language.

I asked why? She told me there was a new kid at school who was deaf and she wanted to befriend him.

Today I stood beside her at their wedding watching her sign "I DO". GMH

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Several years back, I passed by an elderly man with crutches hobbling onto an interstate on-ramp. I stopped and asked the man if I could give him a ride. He said "Yes, I'm just going to the next exit to visit my wife." When I get to the next exit, I dropped him off at the cemetery. His neverending love GMH.

I volunteered at my local hospital and saw this old couple; a man sat in a chair, holding his wife's hand on the bed and I heard her say,

"Promise you won't waste your last years missing me when I'm gone, Bill?" and he smiled and said,

"Sure. Promise you won't blame me when I break it?"

They GMH. *Visit LoveGivesMeHope for more stories like this!

At my college graduation everyone is allowed to take a loved one with them as they walk across the stage. The last girl to walk across held the arm of her 90 year old grandpa. As they crossed the stage the chancelor read her grandfathers name. He graduated 60 years ago but didn't get to walk his own graduation because he was fighting in WWII. GMH.

The homosexual boy in my senior class was not harassed, bashed, or mocked for his sexuality. As a matter of fact at our senior prom he was voted prom king AND prom queen, and he received a standing ovation from our entire class as he cat walked across every foot of the stage. GMH!

Today, at an assembly, i saw a guy in my grade getting picked on by some guys on the football team because he was gay. the brutal insults went on for about five minutes until the quarterback, the king of our school, stood up and announced he was gay. nobody ever made fun of the kid again. after, i asked him if he really was gay. He isn't. GMH.

I was in class one day when my boyfriend, who had been deployed for two years, came walking into the classroom. I had no idea he was back in the States. I've never cried harder in my life then I did when I saw him walk in. As I was hugging him, he got down on one knee and proposed to me. We're getting married in the fall. GMH.

One of my classmates in high school had leukemia, and he was really depressed after his first round of chemo when he came to school with no hair. When they found out about it, all 70+ members of the varsity football team shaved their heads too. Their yearbook picture is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. GMH

A boy was dying of cancer and needed an expensive brain surgery, but his family, broke and desperate, couldn't afford it. His 8 yr old took sister Tess took her piggy bank savings to a pharmacist in order to buy a 'miracle'. it just so happens that the right man witnessed the little girl's tears at the pharmacy counter: a neurosurgeon. He performed the surgery for free.

I was recently working at a nursery school where I saw a 3 year old girl wearing tights on her head. One of my colleagues told me it was because some of the children had been making fun of her bald head. She had had chemotherapy. I later saw one young boy of about 4 go over to her, tell her she was beautiful and remove the tights. GMH x

Today, I stopped at a local used book store that is located on a pretty bad street in my neighborhood. Bringing my books to the front of the store, I met the owner, a quadriplegic man who asked me to put the money for the purchase into his front pocket. He has ran the store for 3 years and never once been robbed. 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.

A couple of years ago, when I was a sophomore in high school, I went on my very first date. When the door bell rang my mom got up to go answer the door, but my brother told her that he wanted to do it. When he opened the door he told my date that if anything happened to me that he would personally beat him up. He was only 11 years old. His love GMH

Today, I was babysitting three young children with my boyfriend. The three year old girl is in full foot to chest braces. We were playing outside and she said to my boyfriend "I can't run like my brother and sister" and he replied "yes but you can fly" and picked her up and flew her around all day. I have never seen her so happy. His love GMH

Today I was feeling down and went to be alone in an old graveyard. One particular headstone struck me- a married couple's gravestone and only the wife had died- 20 years ago. I touched the vibrant flowers sitting in front of the marble marker. They were fresh. Enduring love, even after death, GMH.

Today, I was in the feminine-products aisle when a middle-aged man started asking me what brand I liked to use and which were the most effective, etc. It turns out that he is a single father to a preteen girl with Down Syndrome, and he was trying to find out which products work the best for his little girl. Caring, loving fathers GMH.

When my friend's brother told his family he was gay, his parents wanted to disown him. My friend told his parents that they either had two sons or none. My friend's support of his brother GMH.

Today at the senior center I volunteer at, I found out that one client, a 60+yr old widowed man, who raised 5 daughters on his own, once heard a woman in his church was pregnant and planned to abort. He told her he would take the baby instead and raise it as his own. He's now raising a 10 year old. He GMH

I was at an electronics store when I saw an employee playing Mario Kart with a little boy. They were sharing a single controller, working together to play the game. The boy had only one arm and wouldn't have been able to play the game otherwise. The boy's smile was a mile wide. Those two 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

Recently I was at a convention with my friends, eating lunch, and then a man, in his early twenties, ran up to us asking if we had a spare tampon. We didn't, and saw him run off to all the other girls in the room, asking them, since his girlfriend needed one. I don't know a man who would do that for me. His love for her GMH.

My dad was in the military and I'd always been proud of his strength and courage. 6 months ago, I got stationed overseas, and was terrified. I checked my email at the airport, to find a long, emotional email from my dad ending with "I'm here to tell you that it is YOU who are MY hero." I read it when I'm homesick, and it GMH.