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Doctors urged Sonya Smith to pull the plug after her son, Tony Grant, was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident; Arissa Wilson didn’t speak in full sentences before she was five. Both benefited from the range of therapeutic programmes in place a...

Eugene Outerbridge Jr didn’t intend to become a paediatrician. He always thought he’d end up working on his father’s lily farm. But then, halfway through his botany studies at university, the business began to suffer. He dropped out to help. “[My fat...

Diana Fearis and Cindy Law have been best friends for years. They met in school at the age of five. Ms Law admired Ms Fearis’s ringlets; Ms Fearis liked Ms Law’s big family. “We’d have sleepovers together and talk about boys all night,” said Ms Feari...

Winton Brangman has the special ability of being able to smile through any number of flubbed notes and botched lyrics. Jelani Veney will fill in for missing actors at the last minute and suffers through every missed step, especially when it is his ow...

Rowan Vickers was feeling out of place as he prepared for his first professional acting role. He was neither Jewish, nor American, but had been cast in Bad Jews, a play about a Jewish family in America. The 22-year-old tried reading the Old Testament...

Piero Casalicchio was a busy textile designer who often went hungry. He didn’t know how to cook and by the time he got home after a long day’s work, most restaurants in Como, Italy, were closed. The Italian started challenging himself to see what he ...

Kym Whitley has a lot to be thankful for. Four years ago she thought she was being pranked when she got a call saying her baby was waiting to be picked up from the hospital. She was 50. She hadn't given birth and wasn't considering adoption — motherh...

Shoeboxes aren’t just for storing shoes, they are also a great way to show love and gratitude. So believes Erlor Dean. She is stuffing shoeboxes with small gifts and handing them out to senior citizens as appreciation for their contributions, in the ...

For many people, making a sandwich is a chore, but for Craig Dickens it’s an adventure. Mental challenges made it necessary for the 51-year-old to live with his mother for most of his life. A year ago he had the opportunity to move into a group home...

As a child, no one would have picked Benjamin “Benny” Sousa as a future millionaire. He had dropped out of school by the age of 10 and was packing shelves in a grocery store; he couldn’t read very well. “I refused to go to school because the children...