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How Living In The Wilderness Helped One Girl Retake...
Finding A Way Out Of Heroin Addiction When Felicity Potter turned 14, it felt like everything in her life started to fall apart. Her parents got a divorce, and she found herself dealing with depression and extreme anxiety. Like any teen...
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Roughing It In The Wilderness Saved This Teens Life
Not every teenager considers ten weeks in the middle of nowhere a “good time.” Mary was no exception—yet she is thrilled that she did it. 16-year-old Mary was somewhat reluctantly brought by her parents to a unique...
Read MoreHow Do We Change Our Perspective of Success?
Most people measure success in only one way. There’s a checklist society has created, and if you don’t conform to their idea of what success is then you’re automatically a failure. As a child, you go to...
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10 Ways You Know You're With the Right Person
10. You Don’t Have to Look Perfect For Each Other All of The Time Dressing up for the other is nice and keeps the romance alive. However, you should be free to look your worst as well. No one can look made up 100% of the time; in...
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Mom Jumps Out Of Burning-Building To Protect Her Child
Christina Simoes may have permanently crippled herself when she jumped out of a window last Wednesday, but she has no regrets. A fire had broken out in her apartment building, leaving Simoes and her infant son trapped. She quickly...
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Ping Pong Player With No Hands Won't Let Anything...
Ibriham Hamato's loves ping pong. It's his favorite sport and always has been. There is only one problem, Ibriham Hamato has no hands. Most people who found themselves in Ibriham's position would have given up. He had lost his arms...
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War Hero Suffering From PTSD Is Awarded Medal Of Honor
When it comes right down to it, most people are going to look after themselves in life or death situation. It's instinctual to seek self-preservation when confronted with danger, but not everyone chooses to follow these instincts. A real...
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Whats Your Teens Future? That Depends! Does He Have...
Are you putting too much emphasis on the wrong things? A lot of parents get hung up about just one or two aspects of their child's development, not realizing that young boys and girls are just as multi-dimensional as adults. We...
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Fighting An Uphill Battle: Dealing With Addiction In...
I've come to realize, from observing friends and family have conversations on their feelings or opinions pertaining to celebrity Philip Seymour Hoffman's overdose, that there are two kinds of people. Those who can understand the mind of...
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