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(The Sun By HELEN GILBERT) - Most parents would not bat an eyelid if their young son or daughter asked them to sit down and watch a DVD together.
But when Katreena Duffin’s autistic daughter Shannon bounded up and asked just this, the mum of three struggled to hold back tears.
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(ABC News By Suzan Clarke) - Every day, Cassandra Bankson wakes up, washes her face and does a makeup routine that dramatically transforms her looks.
The California teen has severe acne. It’s so bad that it covers most of her face, as well as parts of her neck, chest and back.
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(Arizona Republic) - Caleb Teodorescu slept in his hospital room, surrounded by no fewer than a dozen teddy bears, balloons and a toy truck taller than his 2-year-old self.
“He looks remarkable considering what happened to him,” said Dr. Budi Wiryawan, a pediatric intensivist at Banner Thunderbird Medical Center in Glendale.
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Lucas, who is 4 years old, has a very rare genetic disorder called Sanfilippo (pronounced San-fa-lee-po) Syndrome, also know as MPS III type A. It affects 1 in 70,000 kids. Roughly the same chances of being struck by lightning.
Now about Lucas’s service dog. Her name is Juno. She is a 2 year old Belgian Malinois. Juno and Lucas are inseparable. You don’t see one without the other close by.
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(Daily Mail By BETH STEBNER) - Parents who don’t think television is educational may have to think again.
Madisyn Kestell, a 10-year-old girl from Sheboygan, Wisconsin, performed CPR on her mother Kandace Seyferth after she found her unconscious at the bottom of the stairs.
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(Daily Mail) - A driver stranded in snow for three days at temperatures of minus 17 has survived by eating frozen beer.
Clifton Vial, 52, became stranded in his Toyota Tacoma 40 miles outside Nome, Alaska after plunging in a snow drift.
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(CBS Sacramento By BEN SOSENKO) - A Virginia family may have their long-lost dog back in time for the holidays after a terrier found nearly 3,000 miles away in rural Yuba County was traced back to them.
An Oregon woman, Meg Eden, was working with her dogs in the Spenceville Wildlife Area near Beale Air Force Base on Wednesday when she found what appeared to be a stray American Staffordshire terrier and pit bull mix, according to the Yuba County Sheriff’s Department.
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(Daily Mail) - A man earns up to $55,000 a year in cash by selling candy on the New York subway.
Alex ‘Tracks’ McFarland, from New York City, plies his trade on the city’s subway system and usually takes home around $150 a day.
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