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(iWIDK By Brittany Hahn) – Losing weight may not be the key to your problems…

Jen Larson losing 180 pounds

Author from Utah, Jen Larson, 38, wrote a book after losing 180 pounds about how being skinny isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. 

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(iWIDK By Brittany Hahn) - What seems impossible can be conquered with a little help from your best friend. 

Walkies dian dian dog two hind legs

Dog from China, Dian Dian, learned to walk like a human after being born without his front legs. 

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(iWIDK By Allie Beauregard) – A couple is torn between the law and what they felt was humane.

Jeff Counceller nursed deer back to health face jail for not letting fawn die

In 2010, Jeff and Jennifer Counseller of Connersville, IN took in a baby white-tailed deer they found on their front porch, covered in deep  wounds filled with maggots and on the verge of death.   This month they were criminally charged for keeping the animal in their custody even though they claim they were just nursing it back to health. 

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(iWIDK By Rebecca Arden) – It’s stories like this that gives hope to humanity … or proves that kids really do read the posters on the school walls. 

Susanna Rohm young boys calming instructed mother to use cpr to save her baby's life

9-year-old Rocky Hurt and 10-year-old Ethan Wilson are small town Georgia heroes after teaching a mother to use CPR to save her infant’s life. 

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(iWIDK By Omar Guzman) – Father of the year.

Iram Leon half amarathon father terminal brain cancer

A Texas man diagnosed with terminal brain cancer ran and won a marathon while pushing his daughter in a stroller.

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(iWIDK By Brittany Hahn) – The best obituary, ever.

Amanda Lewis obituary

The daughter of an 80-year-old Florida man wrote him an obituary that was deemed “Best Obit Ever” in publications like the Herald Sun.  The obituary is now viral for any one to read… spoiler alert: it’s a real knee-slapper. 

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(iWIDK By Alex Dorian) – A best friend and human chain saved a boy’s life.

Joshua McQuoid 12 person human chain to save boy at sea

12-year-old Josh McQuoid wasn’t expecting to get pulled into the ocean’s current at Napier’s Marine Parade beach in New Zealand, nor to have a chain of twelve people pulling him to safety.

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(iWIDK by Aaron Lanton) - A woman wrote an inspirational memoir after receiving a devastating medical diagnosis. 

Susan Spencer-Wendel terminally ill mother wrote book on her iphone

Susan Spencer-Wendel, an award-winning criminal courts reporter for The Palm Beach Post, wrote a memoir titled Until I Say Goodbye on her iPhone using only her right thumb after being diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease in the summer of 2011.

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(iWIDK By Lauren Keough) - A deaf child heard her mom’s voice for the first time. 

Jayde girls hears mother's voice first time

Jayde Scholl was born deaf in China and ended up in an orphanage after she was abandoned in a public square at 8 months old.

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(iWIDK By Remus Lee) - If all goes well, a blind girl will soon be able to smell for the first time in her life.

Cassidy Hooper facial reconstruction no nose or eyes

16-year-old Cassidy Hooper of Charlotte, North Carolina, is preparing to undergo reconstructive surgeries that will construct a nose to replace one that was missing since birth.

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(iWIDK By Lauren Keough) - A high school couple’s picture was taken out of their yearbook.

Lialani Hernandez felicia rivera banned from yearbook lesbian lovers

Felicia Rivera, 16, has said she is taking a stand after her high school allegedly blocked a photo of her and her girlfriend from appearing in the yearbook because they are gay.

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(iWIDK By Dominick Cattarina) – Great news in the fight against AIDS.

A young baby

Researchers have said that a Mississippi baby girl has been cured of HIV.

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(iWIDK By Rebecca Arden) – It’s time for everyone to take a trip to Albuquerque, New Mexico to meet a truly phenomenal person. 

Tim's Place in Albuquerque down's syndrome

26-year-old Tim Harris didn’t let anything crush his dream of owning his own restaurant, not even the fact that he has Down’s Syndrome. 

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