Two coworkers two husbands & conversation that changed their

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Feel good story.   (Short video at link)

www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/two-coworkers-two-husbands-in-trouble-one-conversation-that-changed-everything/ar-AAKGjdI?ocid=msedgntp

Susan Ellis and Tia Wimbush had worked together for years in the IT department at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. Both of their husbands went into renal failure around the same time and both of them needed kidney transplants.



It was a random bathroom conversation in the fall of 2019 when they realized something incredible about each other's circumstances.

"We started talking about blood types and Susan mentioned that her husband, Lance, is O negative and it was like a light bulb moment went off in my head." Wimbush is blood type O. Ellis's husband needed a kidney from someone with blood type O.



Ellis revealed that she's blood type A. Wimbush's husband needed a kidney from someone with blood type A.

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I just saw this story on my MSN home page .......... how cool is this

Two families blessed

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Good outcome and story.

There are some other good stories out there. Here is another one.

A student was barred from graduation for wearing the wrong shoes. So a teacher gave him the shoes off his own feet.

When Daverius Peters arrived at his high school graduation ceremony on May 19, he was immediately blocked from entering the convention center where it was being held.

Peters, 18, was wearing the mandatory purple cap and gown, but a school representative standing at the front door told him his shoe selection was wrong.



“She said my shoes violated the dress code and I couldn’t attend the ceremony unless I changed them,” said Peters, a senior at Hahnville High School in Boutte, La.

According to the school’s graduation dress code, male students were to wear dark dress shoes, with an emphasis that “no athletic shoes” were to be worn.

Peters showed up that day in black leather sneakers with white soles, and while they weren’t traditional dress shoes, “I thought I could wear them because they’re black,” he said, adding that he abided by the rest of the guidelines, which stipulated that students must wear a white dress shirt and tie, as well as dark dress pants.

When he was stopped from entering the front door, “I was in shock,” Peters recalled. “I felt humiliated. I just wanted to walk across the stage and get my diploma.”

Complete story here: link

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Another similar story like the OP.

A Florida woman got married and 2 days later swapped her wedding gown for a hospital gown to donate a kidney to her husband's ex-wife

Debby Neal-Strickland married Jim Merthe and two days later donated her kidney to Merthe's ex-wife.

Mylaen Merthe had struggled with kidney disease for a long time and was hospitalized in November.

Merthe and Neal-Strickland now call each other kidney sisters and have a family trip planned.

Complete article here:  link

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I would love for all newspapers to devote the Sunday front page to nothing but articles about kindnesses to others.

That would be an 'upper' to start the week with.

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This probably deserves a thread of its own, but here's a nice positive story for Sunday.


www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-millionaire-tech-inventor-thrown-away-as-a-baby/ar-AAKKddF?ocid=msedgntp

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This was an interesting read this morning.

How a WWII Japanese sub commander helped exonerate a U.S. Navy captain.

Just thirty-four days before the end of World War II, a U.S. Navy cruiser was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine and sunk in the Philippine Sea.

The USS Indianapolis had been the ship of state of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and had just delivered core components of the Hiroshima-bound atomic bomb “Little Boy” off the coast of Japan four days earlier.

After unloading her top-secret cargo at Tinian and then making a quick stop in Guam to await further orders, the crew of the Indy were soon bound for the Philippine island of Leyte, unaware that their location had just been discovered by an enemy submarine.

A Japanese sonar man had picked up on the sound of rattling dishes in her kitchen from some six miles away. The submarine began stalking her through the water until it was close enough to engage.

The sub’s commanding officer, Mochitsura Hashimoto, gave the order to fire six torpedoes into her side at 12:04 A.M. on July 30, 1945. Two of the torpedoes hit their mark, and it took the Indy just twelve minutes to capsize and sink, forever entombing some 300 of her 1,195-man crew 18,044 feet beneath the surface of the moonlit water.

Article continued here: link