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These Dogs Are Teaching Machines How to Sniff Out Cancer
Learn how new discoveries about dogs' ability to detect disease will revolutionize medicine.
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The Most Chilling UFO Sightings Ever Recorded
If you're a skeptic, these creepy UFO sightings will make you believe. If you already believe, prepare to get spooked!
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This Man Was Bitten By a Rattlesnake—After It Had Been Decapitated!
When Jeremy Sutcliffe decapitated the poisonous snake, he assumed that would be the end of it. He was wrong.
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When a Scuba Diver Got Lost in a Cave, This Rescuer Refused to Quit Searching
Two friends dove into a dark underwater tunnel in the Adriatic Sea. Only one came out.
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How a Chicago Hospital Pulled Off Back-to-Back Triple Organ Transplants
Before 2018, only 15 triple organ transplants—heart, liver and kidney—had ever been performed in the United States. Then, over the...
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This Woman’s Legendary Fudge Recipe Was Engraved on Her Tombstone
The recipe for "Kay's Fudge" will never be forgotten.
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What My Daughter Taught Me When She Came Out As Trans
"When my child told me she was trans, I remember the fear: for her safety, for how the world might...
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After 21 Years of Marriage, I Helped My Husband Come Out as Gay
We had three small children when my husband realized he was gay, but helping him come out taught them an...
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My Mother Married an Astronaut
While he may not have been to space, this new dad was truly out of this world.
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Hope and Light: The Art of Kevin Pee-Ace
From his residential school upbringing to the early days of reconciliation, artwork and family continue to be sources of strength...
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I Wished For a Baby, But Instead a Bunny Showed Up At My Door
After trying to conceive for over three years, the lost bunny we adopted was a welcome distraction from our struggles...
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With Some Help From My Favourite Dishes, I Finally Found Joy in Cooking
In learning to be comfortable with what I don’t know, I’m realizing that the things that make me feel as...
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As a Teenager, I Gathered Paints for Maud Lewis
During the 1960s, my father kept up a frequent correspondence with Maud Lewis, one of Canada’s most famous folk artists.
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How One Woman in Petty Harbour is Bringing Newfoundlanders Back to Their Fishing Roots
With Fishing For Success in Petty Harbour, Newfoundlander Kimberley Orren hopes to bring women, children and a sense of community...
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This Story of Two Pen Pals Will Warm Your Heart
Eleanor was from the Prairies and Lois was from Newfoundland, but the distance didn't stop these two pen pals from...
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30 Inspiring Quotes From Cancer Survivors
People who have survived cancer have been through a lot—and they've learned a lot. This wisdom may help you and...
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Why I Stopped Making New Year’s Resolutions
Was it me failing my resolutions, or were my resolutions failing me? Here’s how a shift in perspective finally helped...
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A Button Collection Bought At Auction Revealed a Lifetime of Memories
After I won a button collection at the auction, I sat with the 89-year-old woman who had saved them and...
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My First-Ever Christmas Pageant as the Virgin Mary
I anxiously listened for my cue line, “The time came for her to have her child,” and then, with nary...
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I Became a Mom on Christmas Eve. Here’s What I Learned About Gratitude
Looking back, I wish I could tell my forlorn self a few things to assuage her fears.
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How a Total Stranger Pulled My Dad Out of His Alzheimer’s Fog
One day, a woman began singing Celine Dion in the doctor's waiting room. I wasn't prepared for what happened next.
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How I Created a Sanctuary for Teenagers in My School Library
When Angela Jouris Saxe started her job, she realized that a school library is more than just a place to...
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Celebrating Muslim Traditions with My Chosen Family
Now that I know I can be both trans and Muslim, I can’t wait for COVID-19 to pass so that...
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A COVID-19 Patient’s Incredible 77-Day Fight for Survival
The story of Rick Cameron's battle for survival, the doctor who wouldn’t give up, and the Maritime community that rallied...
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The Incredible Story of How a Small Saskatchewan Community Rallied to Save the Life of an Unborn Baby
Fifty-three years after a tragic accident took the life of his mother, mechanic Don Mason received a phone call from...
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A Holiday Gift Exchange Has Held My Friend Group Together for Two Decades
Holidays with family can be cozy, but our exchange offered something else: a chance for my friends and me to...
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Announcing the Reader’s Digest Book Club Picks for Fall 2020
Do you love gothic mysteries, or prefer intergenerational dramas? Maybe true crime is your thing. For whatever you desire to...
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How a Casual Conversation Helped Bring Closure to a Dutch POW’s Family
Pieter Broerse was one of thousands of POWs and local villagers who were forced to build the notorious Burma Railway...
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8 Horror Movies Inspired By True Stories
Jaws, Psycho and A Nightmare on Elm Street may be the stuff of nightmares, but they were all based on...