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Florida Family Rescue Beached Dolphin Stranded (VIDEO)
Offbeat  (tags: Florida, family, rescue, dolphin, beached, good news, happy news, animals, interesting, wildlife, protection )

Lindsey
- 46 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
Kerry Ware and her family were on a boat near Fort George Island, Fla., when they saw a beached dolphin stranded on a sandbar, ABC News reports. "It was just flapping and it looked really helpless so we stopped the boat to see what was going on,"
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Acts of Love
Offbeat  (tags: humans, love, reality, experience, friends, family )

Nancy
- 93 days ago - truthdig.com
By Chris Hedges -- Love, the defining and most glorious element in human life, reminds us of why we have been created for our brief sojourns on the planet.
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The Dog Who Saved a Boy and His Family
Offbeat  (tags: animals, environment, pets, protection, dogs, family )

Cher
- 103 days ago - all-creatures.org
There are many touching, heartwarming stories of "service" dogs who do amazing things to help their disabled people.
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Washington Family Believed Puppy Died After Accident, Finds Him Alive (VIDEO)
Offbeat  (tags: family, pet, puppy, scamp, dead, alive, goodnews, video )

BarbCat
- 162 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
Reta and Paul McKinlay weren't quite sure how to break the news to their grandchildren. Their 8-month-old Yorkshire Terrier-Shih Tzu mix, Scamp, had escaped from their yard in Yelm, Wash. and was hit by a car. Assuming Scamp was dead and waiting until
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Tips for Surviving the Annual Family Thanksgiving From Hell
Offbeat  (tags: Tips for Surviving, the Annual, Family, Thanksgiving, from Hell )

Agnes
- 190 days ago - en.paperblog.com
It happens every year. Thanksgiving with the Fam. Sometimes it takes us months to mentally prepare for it. We all love our families and it's only for one day right? But Christmas is just around the corner and then we have to do it all over again? How
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Watch Feral Kittens Reunite After Release From Trap (VIDEO)
Offbeat  (tags: Good News, kittens, reunite, TNR, pets, family, happiness, video )

BarbCat
- 197 days ago - care2.com
As part of the feral trap-neuter-release (TNR) rescue program, we trapped this black kitty and had him fixed. In this video, we are releasing him back to his siblings, who are overjoyed to see him. The kitty will live out his life in the gulch near our
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.How One Puppy Helped Save a Toddler
Offbeat  (tags: bonding, special love, tika, saviour, toddler, alerted, family, safe )

Simone
- 203 days ago - examiner.com
Tika, a 4 month-old Border collie, has been an exceptionally smart dog since the day that her family brought her home. But this clever puppy proved just how incredibly special she is back on September 11, 2011 - the day that she helped save her human
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How Child Support Settlements Affect Your Family
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Susie
- 247 days ago - totaldivorce.com
With some divorce cases come huge child support settlements. Here is a look at what child support is as well as how child support money is meant to support the children, and some real cases.
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Willow, Missing Colorado Cat, Found In New York City Streets
Offbeat  (tags: Willow kitty, lost, dogs, pets, family, reunited, microchip, goodnews )

BarbCat
- 253 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
NEW YORK -- A calico cat named Willow, who disappeared from a home near the Rocky Mountains five years ago, was found Wednesday on a Manhattan street and will soon be returned to a family in which two of the three kids and one of the two dogs may remember
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Colorado Cat Willow Missing for Five Years Found on New York City Street
Offbeat  (tags: mystery, calico cat, missing, 5 years, colorado, located, new york residence, reunited, family )

Simone
- 254 days ago - heraldsun.com.au
A CALICO cat named Willow, who disappeared from a home near the Rocky Mountains five years ago, was found today on a Manhattan street and will soon be returned to a family in which two of the three kids and one of the two dogs may remember her.
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When Kids Bring Up Same-Sex Marriage
Offbeat  (tags: children, family, living, sex, marriage )

Agnes
- 275 days ago - cnn.com
Deep conversations with my kids seem to always arise in the car. "The most important thing about marriage," I told my kids when the subject came up, "is that you pick someone who is kind, and who really loves you."
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Mother Caught Between Radiation Threat And Breaking Up Family
Offbeat  (tags: radiation threat, family, breaking up family?, hot spot, evacuation, care )

Naoko
- 284 days ago - mdn.mainichi.jp
Currently living under the same roof with Sato is her 84-year-old bedridden grandmother, her 21-year-old younger sister - who has cerebral palsy ans is usually in a care facility but at home on weekends - her parents and four pets.
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God Bless The U.S.A. Lee Greenwood   video
Offbeat  (tags: americans, freedom, family, children, God, Bless, usa, Lee Greenwood, video, goodnews )

BarbCat
- 327 days ago - youtube.com
Though Greenwood wrote this song in 1983, it didn't become a big hit until Desert Storm in 1991, when radio stations embraced it to help boost patriotism. The song re-entered the country charts in 2001 after 9/11.
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Man Left To Raise Baby Son Alone After Tsunami Keeps Searching For Wife
Offbeat  (tags: Japan, Great East Japan Earthquake, missing, baby son, alone, searching, march11, tsunami, rubbles, love, Rikuzentakada City, Iwate Prefecture, tsunami, shelter, sadness, child, family )

Naoko
- 382 days ago - mdn.mainichi.jp
Firmly grasping his 1-year-old son Yuhi, 26-year-old Junishi Kozuchi walks through rubble-filled city of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, searching for his missing 24-year-old wife, Yuka.
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