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James Van Der Beek died on Wednesday after a long and public battle with colorectal cancer. The disease eventually made it impossible for the 48-year-old actor to continue working, and significant medical bills piled up for his wife, Kimberly, and their six children. Shortly after the news of his death broke, friends launched a GoFundMe…

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For years, 92-year-old Floridian Muriel Connick has been clocking in at her local Burlington store in Pompano Beach — not because she wanted something to do, but because she simply couldn’t afford to stop working. With rent, car payments, insurance, utilities, and even needed repairs on her mobile home, her Social Security income just wasn’t…

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It was a scene that could have ended in tragedy — but thanks to one quick-thinking driver in Florida, two toddlers are safe and back home. Brevard County resident John Brittingham was driving southbound on A1A when he noticed something that made his heart drop: two very young girls were standing in the middle of…

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My friend Jaye and her husband raised their two children in a 560-square-foot apartment in New York City. Most of their domestic life unfolded in a sprawling living room framed by two minimalist bedrooms. Loneliness was rarely an option. “We just embraced it,” she said. So did their friends. Many nights, the family’s different social…

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