Inspired Life

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Man ran 700 miles to make ‘insanely impressive’ art on GPS fitness app

It took Duncan McCabe 10 months to make a 27-second digital art video.

By Sydney PageDecember 2

For his wife’s 40th birthday, he paid for 40 shelter dog adoptions

By Cathy FreeNovember 29

Postal worker saves man who fell, will spend Thanksgiving with him

By Sydney PageNovember 27

A cop took a DNA test. He learned his biological dad was locked up for murder.

By Gail LukasikNovember 27

She started her school’s cheer squad. At 97, she got to perform again.

By Amber FergusonNovember 26

A recording of their 1966 wedding was in a thrift store. A stranger returned it.

November 26

Pet pig visits senior home each day: ‘They’re very social animals’

November 23

She wrote a note in a bottle decades ago. It just showed up at her old school.

November 22

Man walked rainy highway for hours to help stranger find lost funeral notes

November 20

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They married at 98 and 96: ‘Who doesn’t love a great love story?’

“We really did fall in love. I didn’t know it could happen again,” said Jo Cartwright, 96.

November 16

Dog left for dead on road; couple empty wedding fund to save her

November 14

Bakery owner discovers longtime customer is her biological son

November 13

Birth of an endangered ape: ‘This new baby has brought a lot of hope’

November 12

Two dogs, inseparable at a shelter, were just adopted together

November 9

They were preemies in the NICU at the same time. Now they’re married.

November 8

Stressed? ‘Sesame Street therapy has begun’

November 5

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