restoring faith in humanity week

What? Oh, yeah, I think some dust got into my eye again. Don't worry about it...

YouTube personalities Austin and Aaron Rhodes (aka “The Rhodes Bros“) decided to finally come out of the closet to their family and friends in 2015.

In this heartwarming video they call up their father, and tell him they are gay for the very first time.

There’s a lot of stalling and a lot of tears before they finally build up the courage to do it, but when it’s all said and done, he is very supportive.

“You know I love you both,” he says. “That’ll never change.”

The brothers said afterwards that they had never been so nervous in their life, but now feel a huge weight has been lifted off of their shoulders.

“We hope by our actions today you can finish watching this video feeling encouraged and inspired,” they write to their viewers.

Valarie Watt's son, Noah, was stillborn last year. Recently, Gerald Kumpula and his wife picked up the unused crib at Watt's garage sale and Watt mentioned her son had passed; Kumpula transformed the crib into a a memorial bench.
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Patrick Stewart has contributed to domestic abuse charities for years, and when a fan asks him about his involvement he gives the best possible response. Sorry, I think I got dust in my eye again...

People say kids don't read enough books these days, but one young pupil at T.S. Cooley Elementary Magnet School in Lake Charles, Los Angeles, would beg to differ. Over the course of the past school year, five-year-old Sophia Moss read through nearly the entire kindergarten and first-grade sections of her school's library. According to the local news report, her father Carl helped her check out five books a week this fall, which eventually grew to more than 20 books per week. In addition to her passion for reading, Sophia has already begun writing her first book, a story about a superhero turtle titled "Sophia's Pet."

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