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Story

“Ma’am… we’ve arrived,” the cabbie said as he pulled over at the cemetery gate, jolting me out of my thoughts.

I’ve been working my UPS route in this neighborhood for over a year now. Same streets, same faces, same barking

Story

I suddenly lost my dad when I was 10. The last gift he brought me was a singing teddy bear.

I didn’t think I’d cry that hard. Not in front of all those people. But when Rex—my uncle’s retired K9

I honestly didn’t think my son would smile that day. He’d just finished his third round of chemo, and the

I was only supposed to be grabbing trash bags and cat litter. That’s it. In and out. But as I

I’d been saving up for months. Doing yard work, running errands for neighbors, even collecting cans. Every single dollar went

I didn’t realize how lonely she’d gotten. Not really. After Dad passed, I called her every week. I visited when

When they rolled out the C.H.A.M.P.S. program at our school, I didn’t think much of it. Just another one of

I almost didn’t turn it in. The night before the anti-bullying poster contest, I crumpled mine up twice. It wasn’t