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Five good things · Three minutes
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KINDNESS • Upworthy
Her lawyer erased the bill. Save it for the kids.She asked to pay in installments. Her lawyer had other plans.
A single mother who had just finished a difficult divorce asked her attorney for the final invoice. It came back at $3,404 and change. She told the lawyer she couldn't pay all at once and wanted to start making installments. The reply, which she shared on X in November 2023 under the handle @messydepressy6, has since drawn more than 151,000 likes. "You can just send me $150 to cover the actual expenses like the service, summons, and whatnot, and we'll call it even," the attorney wrote. The $150 covered the filing and process-server fees she had already paid out of her own pocket. The several thousand dollars of billable time, she wrote off. "It's the holidays," she added. "Save the money for the kids for Christmas, not for legal bills." The client is now in school for criminal justice, planning to become a lawyer. She intends to pay the balance once she starts practicing. She also intends to do things exactly like this.
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MOTIVATIONAL • Good News Network
He became a nurse at 64, alongside his sonHe didn't think he'd ever get there. His son saved him a seat.
John Adesoye graduated from nursing school at 64, having spent one day a week on campus alongside his son Daniel, who was studying creative music technology at the same university. Adesoye earned his degree from the University of the West of England after completing a nurse associate program and an apprenticeship with the National Health Service Foundation Trust in Bristol. He grew up in a poor farming family in Nigeria, drawn early to electronics after wondering how the family radio worked. He later serviced equipment in Greece before moving to the UK. He has now secured a nursing role at Southmead Hospital, where he did his apprenticeship. Being around younger students made him feel young again, he said. Whether seeing his own son on campus had the same effect, he did not say. "When I got the chance to go to university, I didn't take it for granted," Adesoye said. "I followed it with my heart."
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KINDNESS • Upworthy
A message in a bottle found two sisters, 53 years laterTwo girls threw it in the sea. Only one lived to be found right.
A message in a bottle written by two New Jersey sisters in August 1973 turned up in a South Jersey marsh this June, 53 years after they threw it into the ocean at Ocean City. John Kauterman found the old glass while clearing trash from Cape May County wetlands with his nonprofit, The Tidelands Initiative. He peeked inside and read the first line. The note, dreamed up by nine-year-old Laurie and written out by her sixteen-year-old sister Allison, claimed a band of ruthless sponge fishermen had captured them and forced them to dive in shark-infested waters. Kauterman posted it to a local Facebook page. People noted there aren't many sponge divers in the northeastern United States. Within twelve hours, they had found Allison Spencer in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Laurie died of cancer in 2017. Allison recognized her own teenage handwriting at once. She thinks Laurie would have been unbearable about it. Kauterman and Laurie, it turned out, share a birthday.
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KINDNESS • WKYC
Passing firefighters got the driver out of the water safelyThey were off duty. They stopped anyway.
Two firefighters were driving on I-77 when they spotted a car that had left the road and landed in a creek below. They stopped. They waded in. Bolivar and Canton crews were credited with pulling the driver to safety, according to WKYC, in a rescue that came down to being in the right place at the right time. Off-duty firefighters do not technically clock out. They tend to notice things other drivers speed past, like a vehicle in water where no vehicle should be. The pair got the driver out of the creek and onto solid ground before conditions could worsen. Both departments were praised for the response. The driver, pulled from the water by two people who happened to be passing, went home.
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DELIGHT • Nice News
Wanna buy a lighthouse? Two families said yes and saved it.Nobody wanted the seagull mess. They bought it anyway.
Two Chesapeake Bay couples paid $31,000 in 2005 to buy Middle Ground Lighthouse, a caisson beacon built in 1891 about two miles off Newport News, Virginia. The U.S. Coast Guard had put it up for auction, seagulls had claimed the top, and it needed everything. Bob Gonsoulin made the pitch. "Hey, wanna buy a lighthouse?" he asked his sister and brother-in-law, Jackie and Dan Billingsley. They said yes. Over the next few years the families and a rotating cast of friends poured more than 7,000 hours and $300,000 into repairs, paid mostly in pizza and beer. Steve's mother and grandfather built a dining table from the lighthouse's own wood. The beacon, 51 feet above the water, still flashes for passing ships. Passing sailboat crews rounding it in races are usually surprised to hear someone saying hello. The families listed it this year for $995,000, hoping a new keeper takes it on.
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