Life lessons from students and teachers with Steve Hartman

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الملخص

TLDRA collection of inspiring stories highlights the unwavering spirit of individuals and communities facing various challenges, from terminal illness to disabilities. John Reigns shares a heartfelt moment with his son at graduation, while a school in Maine fosters connection by teaching sign language to a hearing-impaired classmate. Generosity is exemplified by retired doctors who restore musical instruments for children, and a bus driver who honors a young girl with a special role in her wedding. Young students from a Minnesota school engage in fundraising for an inclusive playground, demonstrating empathy and determination. Each story underlines the message that kindness, love, and community support can transform lives and create lasting memories.

الوجبات الجاهزة

  • 💖 John Reigns wants to see his son graduate despite terminal illness.
  • 🎶 Charlie and Dorothy restore and give out musical instruments.
  • 🚍 A bus driver honored a young girl by making her the flower girl at her wedding.
  • 📖 Rahan Staten seeks to acknowledge support staff through his nonprofit.
  • 🏆 Xavier Jones walks 6 miles for his diploma and receives a scholarship.
  • 💡 Students of Glen Lake Elementary fundraise for an adaptive playground.
  • 🩹 Teacher Donna Hogland donates a kidney to her student's mom.
  • 🎁 Students in Phoenix give back to families in need during Christmas.

الجدول الزمني

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    Steve Hartman introduces John Reigns, a 49-year-old with terminal brain cancer, and highlights his desire to see his son Blake graduate from high school. Despite doctor predictions of limited time, John's determination drives him to create lasting memories with his son.

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    Blake's mother, Pam, arranges a surprise graduation event for John, showcasing the love and support of the community. The emotional moment becomes a significant milestone for both father and son, emphasizing the importance of cherishing time together amidst terminal illness.

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    In Dayton, Maine, six-year-old Mor Banger, who has a severe hearing impairment, attends a public school where students learn sign language to communicate and bond with her. Their kindness creates a welcoming environment, showing the impact of inclusion and support in education.

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    The Hail family in Rochester, New York, dedicates their retirement to fixing and donating broken musical instruments to local schools. Their selflessness enhances the lives of countless children, demonstrating that generosity can change lives through the gift of music education.

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    At Harvard Law School, Rahan Staten, an inspiring graduate who once worked in sanitation, initiates a support staff awards banquet to celebrate the unseen workers of the institution, highlighting the theme of gratitude and recognition for essential contributions that often go unnoticed.

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    First graders at Trinity Leadership School conduct an imaginative 'trip' to Mexico without leaving their classroom, illustrating the power of creativity in teaching and the dedication of teachers to provide enriching experiences for their students.

  • 00:30:00 - 00:35:00

    In Aurora, Colorado, math teacher Finn Lanning becomes a foster parent to his student Damen, who has kidney disease, demonstrating the profound impact of compassion and support from educators on children's lives during their most challenging times.

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    Curtis Jenkins, a beloved school bus driver in Dallas, creates a family atmosphere on his bus and goes beyond routine duties to build relationships, proving that meaningful connections make a significant difference in students' lives and overall well-being.

  • 00:40:00 - 00:45:00

    Josiah Johnson, a boy born without legs, astounds everyone by making his middle school basketball team, showing determination that defies expectations and serves as inspiration for others to pursue their dreams regardless of obstacles.

  • 00:45:00 - 00:54:09

    On Cudyhunk Island, 13-year-old Gwen Lynch reflects on her time in a one-room schoolhouse, participating in unique activities and preparing for a transition to a boarding school, embodying resilience and hope for the future amidst change.

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  • What is the central theme of the stories?

    The central theme revolves around kindness, community support, and personal resilience.

  • Who is John Reigns?

    John Reigns is a man diagnosed with terminal brain cancer who wanted to see his son graduate high school.

  • How did students at Dayton Consolidated Elementary show kindness to Mor Banger?

    They learned sign language to make her feel welcomed and included.

  • What do Charlie and Dorothy Hail do?

    They restore and donate musical instruments to children in need.

  • What special honor did Anna receive from her bus driver?

    Anna was invited to be the flower girl at her bus driver's wedding.

  • Who is Rahan Staten?

    Rahan Staten is a Harvard Law student who started a nonprofit to celebrate support staff at Harvard.

  • What event is described with Xavier Jones?

    Xavier, a 14-year-old boy, received a scholarship after walking six miles to collect his diploma.

  • What did young students achieve for their school?

    They raised $300,000 for an adaptive playground to assist classmates with disabilities.

  • What significant act did teacher Donna Hogland do?

    She became a kidney donor for one of her fourth graders' mothers who was in need.

  • How did the students at Phoenix Elementary spread joy during the holidays?

    They raised funds to perform acts of kindness and give monetary gifts to families in need.

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التمرير التلقائي:
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    here's something to think about if you
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    had one dying wish what would it be
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    Steve Hartman met a man who knew exactly
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    what he wanted and here's tonight's on
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    the
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    road 49-year-old John Reigns is living
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    on borrowed time he has terminal brain
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    cancer and doctors told him a year and a
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    half ago that he had about a year to
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    live what keeps you going
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    Blake he was 5 months premature when he
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    was born they didn't know if he was
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    going to even breathe he's been special
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    his whole life John's only son Blake
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    goes to Billings West High School in
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    Billings Montana he's a senior which is
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    why John wanted to make it to May at
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    least so I can see my kid
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    graduate what parent doesn't want to see
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    it that's a huge milestone in a kid's
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    life Pam Rudolph Blake's mom and John's
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    ex-wife says there was no guarantee he'd
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    live that long yeah I that's when I
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    realized we have to do something what
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    Pam did was reach out to the principal
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    at Billings West to arrange a surprise
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    for her ex-husband she made up an excuse
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    to lure him to the school and into the
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    auditorium he didn't have any idea the
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    band would be playing and this was
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    really happening just for him and for
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    Blake it was a graduation of one staged
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    for this audience of one
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    I started thinking about everything how
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    much time I had what I could do I'm just
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    going to spend as much time with him as
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    I
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    can Blake will still have to finish out
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    the school year but the Milestone has
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    now been marked the memory
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    sealed when I got my diploma and I went
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    down and hugged him just felt so good
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    it's probably the best hug he's ever
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    given
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    me best day in my life
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    how can the best day of your life be
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    when you're
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    dying people will make you
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    happy the power of a Kind deed real
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    happy can overcome even the worst of
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    Fates my ex-wife coming to her like that
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    and John says that's the lesson in this
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    moment that we're all terminal we just
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    need to treat each other like we know
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    it Steve Hartman on the road
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    in Billings
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    Montana we're going to end the week at a
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    school where the students have an
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    important lesson for us all here's Steve
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    Hartman on the road ready for cookies
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    six-year-old Mor Banger has a severe
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    hearing impairment but she's also very
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    much a typical kid which is why when it
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    came time for kindergarten her parents
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    Shannon and Matt were torn send her to a
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    school for the deaf yeah eggs or to the
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    public school here M which was close and
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    convenient unfortunately at the public
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    school there weren't any other kids like
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    Mor and support was minimal you always
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    think of the bad things like you know
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    are they going to make fun of her or her
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    fitting in um thankfully we made the
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    right choice
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    mhm you can guess what they decided or
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    can you believe it or not this is Dayton
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    Consolidated Elementary the public
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    school where talking like myy has become
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    all the rage can I practice a sign
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    language yay can I help yeah kids here
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    at Dayton have learned multiple things
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    of sign language so like door window
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    carrot quiet funny sad what's that
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    that's not a sign but I like to do it I
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    like to do it too but it's not a
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    sign obviously they're not fluent yet
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    but about a third of the kids here know
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    enough to navigate a kindergarten
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    conversation like when Mory didn't
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    notice the line was moving the girl in
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    the pink told her to walk followed by
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    the universal sign for way to go Mori
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    and it's not like the administration is
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    mandating this there is no sign language
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    curriculum this is bottomup kindness
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    students motivated by nothing more than
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    their own deep desire to connect with
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    this one little
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    girl what they know they learn mostly
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    from posters books watching Mor's Aid
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    and teaching each other they want to do
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    as much as they can for her we want her
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    to feel comfortable and safe and be able
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    to kind of make friends with her it's
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    like if you got a gift basket that's
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    what she is a little gift basket flowers
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    and chocolate just a little bundle of
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    joy eventually my's parents say their
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    daughter may need more support services
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    but they believe all she needs now is
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    what she has here a loving Community to
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    know that people just accept her for how
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    she is she's just going to
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    succeed because of being at that school
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    there are signs of that
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    already Steve Hartman on the road in
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    Dayton
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    Maine for Charlie and Dorothy hail of
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    Rochester New York every day is like
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    Christmas morning oo bright shiny
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    Woodwinds and worn out old brass Brown
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    cardboard packages tied up with strings
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    used musical instruments are their
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    favorite
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    things this just came from FedEx they
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    show up all day without intermission
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    that's a big one and each piece in some
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    form of disrepair oops I told you it had
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    some problems they started out buying
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    these broken instruments a few years ago
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    after Dorothy took a class in Instrument
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    Repair I always loved to take things
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    apart and it's about time I learned how
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    to put something
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    together I put shellack on that Dorothy
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    a retired chemist and Charlie a retired
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    doctor are both now in their 80s but
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    still very active in this passion to
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    restore musical instruments to their
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    former
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    glory and then give them away by the
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    hundreds so far the hailes have donated
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    nearly a thousand instruments to the
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    Rochester school district Allison
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    Schmidt is the lead teacher for the arts
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    department can everybody play an
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    instrument here who wants to absolutely
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    it's
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    unbelievable for two humans to care so
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    much about other people's children
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    Allison says the impact has been huge
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    but it was interesting when I tried to
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    talk to the hailes about this they
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    seemed downright oblivious I have no
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    doubt you've changed lives and that to
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    me is the you don't think
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    so no I don't there are ripples with
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    effect I hope you know ripples sophomore
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    William Delgado says it's more like
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    tital waves really music has and can
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    create somebody and he created
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    me studies consistently show that music
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    education helps kids do better in school
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    overall if for no other reason then it
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    makes them want to attend I wish you
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    could be there every time I get to hand
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    an instrument to a student and their
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    eyes light up fortunately the hailes are
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    now starting to understand if I could
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    thank you every single day of my life I
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    would as we go into the holidays it's
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    good to remember that there is no
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    greater gift than simply telling someone
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    just how important they really
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    [Music]
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    are Steve Hartman on the road in
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    Rochester New
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    York finally tonight Harvard Law School
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    is considered to be one of the most PR
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    prestigious academic institutions in the
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    world cbs's Steve Hartman introduces us
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    to one of its newest graduates on the
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    road no one has ever attended Harvard
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    Law School for its sparkling glass doors
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    or smudge-free
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    countertops in fact support staff here
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    say most students never even notice
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    their efforts with one remarkable
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    exception he's just want to give you a
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    hug and you know say hi to you they say
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    one day this one student started
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    thanking all of them thank you for what
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    you do and this is something very
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    different I'm like what is this kid's
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    angle food service worker pron Merchant
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    was skeptical before that but once I
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    heard his background that's when it just
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    all made sense I'm like
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    oh you see us cuz you're one of us for
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    sure that student is rahan Staten before
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    coming to Harvard Law he worked in
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    sanitation my job was to refurbish the
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    dumpsters I've heard people literally
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    point to me and point to my coworker and
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    say like don't be like them I think it
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    just reminds me to stay humble and um
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    just remember I wasn't always standing
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    here today rahan has not only maintained
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    his humility he has multiplied it
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    earlier this year rahan started a
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    nonprofit called the reciprocity effect
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    its mission to guarantee that from now
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    on and forever the support staff here at
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    Harvard Law would not only be seen they
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    would be
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    celebrated this was the first support
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    staff awards banquet honoring in Oscar
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    likee fashion the custodians and
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    cafeteria workers and everyone else who
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    makes this place
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    possible the feeling of knowing that you
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    are appreciated will always go a long
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    way especially for those who don't know
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    that I think that's what makes what
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    rahan did so special is because you
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    didn't even realize how unseen you were
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    until you were seen and then all of a
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    sudden you're like oh this is kind of
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    nice rahan
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    ston in the coming days a lot of
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    graduates will stand high on a stage a
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    great vantage point to finally see all
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    the people who lifted them
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    there Steve Hartman on the road in
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    Cambridge Massachusetts
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    finally tonight cbs's Steve Hartman goes
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    on the road to a class getting straight
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    A's in
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    imagination you may walk thees at the
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    Trinity Leadership School near Dallas
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    Sonia White's first graders are still
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    flying high come all the way back and
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    walk still reliving their amazing
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    one-day Field Trip South of the Border
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    where are you going Mexico to Mexico I
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    love your outfit it was my first time on
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    a plane we went inside a cloud I saw the
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    ocean is that your first time seeing the
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    ocean mhm at this point you've got to be
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    wondering how could a school afford this
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    what kind of teacher does it take to fly
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    a class of first graders to Mexico for a
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    day a very clever one so just to be
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    clear you did not go to Mexico we did
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    not you did not get on a plane we did
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    not you never left the class we did
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    not what you're about to say is a
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    testament to the power of imagination
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    and the magic teachers have to harness
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    it okay let's find out who after Sonia's
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    students told her their one wish was to
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    fly on a plane she went Full Throttle on
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    the preent um boarding pass and your
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    passport Place created travel documents
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    for each child and then boarded them on
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    their flight to Mexico okay guys we are
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    now at 13,000 feet you may take out a
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    snack we had a little Turin boy did not
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    scare me but my friend Lorenzo had a
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    rough Landing really what happened to
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    him he was
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    like the buyin really was
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    remarkable one of my students saw
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    somebody that night and they said what
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    are you doing here I thought you were in
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    Mexico and he said yeah we were we got
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    back at 3: and that's when I was like
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    they really think we went to Mexico I'm
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    riding you from Mexico teachers
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    everywhere could use more resources but
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    the best always seemed to figure out a
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    way to take kids places often without so
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    much as a bus ride did this fuel your
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    desire for More Travel yes do you know
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    North Korea yeah
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    sure probably I do not want to go there
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    next I guess even pretend flights come
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    with Travel warnings yes Steve Hartman
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    on the road near
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    Dallas classes here at Axel Academy in
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    Aurora Colorado have been out over a
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    week now but for middle school math
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    teacher Finn Lanning there's one student
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    he just can't shake 13-year-old Damen do
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    you know how many pencils I went through
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    this year like way more than you should
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    have yeah Damen says Mr Lanning was
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    definitely one of his better teachers
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    when like a teacher doesn't bother me
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    over and over again that's better you
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    have a low bar yeah like leave me alone
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    I'll leave you alone I'll get my work
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    done he's smart and funny um and he was
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    always a student that stood out out and
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    then one day he just came to me and said
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    I'm not coming back to school Finn sat
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    him down at that table right then in
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    there and what I found out was his story
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    he learned Damian was in foster care
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    that he had kidney disease and because
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    Social Services couldn't find a foster
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    family willing and able to meet his
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    medical needs Damen had to leave school
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    and move into a hospital but here's the
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    real kicker the kid needs a transplant
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    desperately and a lot of times you can't
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    get a transplant if you don't have a
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    stable home to return to after surgery
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    it hit me like a ton of bricks I mean
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    you just can't sit across from somebody
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    that you care about and hear them say
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    something like that and know that you
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    have room to
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    help and that's how Finn became a foster
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    parent he took in Damian dialysis needs
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    and all even though prior to that
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    hallway meeting he'd been a confirmed
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    Bachelor who delighted in his
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    childlessness I never thought that I
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    could leave school and take one of them
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    with me and still survive right Damien
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    says right back at you bro I was like
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    yes I'd get out of the hospital but I
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    was like my math teacher out of all the
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    people now 4 months into it oh yeah
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    neither one of them would change a thing
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    although Damen says he's not getting too
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    excited just yet rematch he's seen fairy
  • 00:14:50
    tales fall apart before it's kind of bad
  • 00:14:53
    thinking about that but some people
  • 00:14:54
    actually do that like they'll like just
  • 00:14:57
    kick you out one they'll be happy with
  • 00:14:59
    you one day and then just kick you out
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    the next I suppose only time will'll let
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    you trust yeah whether he believes it or
  • 00:15:07
    not doesn't change the fact that um I'm
  • 00:15:10
    not going anywhere this is it for him
  • 00:15:13
    yep in fact Finn says he plans to adopt
  • 00:15:16
    Damien as soon as possible is that
  • 00:15:19
    enough pepper in the meantime and much
  • 00:15:21
    more importantly because of Finn Damen
  • 00:15:23
    got back on the transplant list and just
  • 00:15:25
    a few hours ago got his new kidney for a
  • 00:15:29
    child steeped in disappointment this is
  • 00:15:32
    shaping up to be the best Father's Day
  • 00:15:34
    weekend ever a new kidney and a dad by
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    his side although Finn says that Dad
  • 00:15:39
    title that's going to take some getting
  • 00:15:41
    used to that role has such meaning
  • 00:15:44
    attached to it right and it's not that
  • 00:15:45
    I'm not willing to do it but it feels
  • 00:15:47
    like you have to earn it in some way you
  • 00:15:50
    did earned it I hope so and epitomizes
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    it that's my favorite I love that one
  • 00:15:57
    Steve Hartman on the road in Aurora
  • 00:16:02
    Colorado we end the week with a ride on
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    a school bus destination happiness
  • 00:16:08
    here's Steve Hartman on the
  • 00:16:10
    road no matter what side of the bed she
  • 00:16:13
    wakes up on Jacksonville Florida school
  • 00:16:15
    bus driver artha Sherman knows her day
  • 00:16:17
    will always get better I mean I may have
  • 00:16:21
    a bad morning but once I see her it's
  • 00:16:24
    different the turning point is a
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    5-year-old girl named Anna hops
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    you are my best friend I'm your best
  • 00:16:31
    friend a can I have a best hug she is
  • 00:16:34
    the ultimate pickme up thank you love I
  • 00:16:37
    love you too let's go bye dad Bye Mom
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    Anna was born with a rare Progressive
  • 00:16:44
    neuromuscular disorder she's constantly
  • 00:16:47
    in and out of the hospital the fact that
  • 00:16:49
    she has so much going on in her life but
  • 00:16:51
    she's always happy always bubbly and she
  • 00:16:53
    always hi Miss Sherman and then we just
  • 00:16:56
    start communicating the parents say they
  • 00:16:58
    first noticed this Bond about a year ago
  • 00:17:01
    Anna had missed school one day because
  • 00:17:03
    she was sick but that afternoon the bus
  • 00:17:06
    came to their house anyway and the
  • 00:17:08
    driver came to the door just checking to
  • 00:17:10
    make sure Anna was okay and I thought
  • 00:17:13
    well she didn't have to do that but
  • 00:17:15
    Kathleen Hobson says that was nothing
  • 00:17:18
    compared to what happened next yummy
  • 00:17:20
    mama in April for Anna's birthday artha
  • 00:17:22
    bought her a princess dress and a tiara
  • 00:17:25
    and decorated the whole bus to celebrate
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    all she could do was just take our hands
  • 00:17:29
    up and say all this for me it was
  • 00:17:33
    just it was just so overwhelming then
  • 00:17:37
    just recently AR Letha bestowed on Anna
  • 00:17:40
    one of the greatest honors a little girl
  • 00:17:42
    can receive she invited her to be the
  • 00:17:45
    flower girl at her
  • 00:17:46
    wedding for Anna's mom this act of
  • 00:17:50
    kindness was almost too much to
  • 00:17:52
    bear I want her to have as many
  • 00:17:54
    experiences as she
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    can so
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    I'm sorry Kathleen went on to say that
  • 00:18:02
    she always hoped to see her daughter in
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    a wedding so this night this site
  • 00:18:07
    especially Anna dancing with her dad it
  • 00:18:10
    was such a
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    gift in any bus driver can take a kid
  • 00:18:16
    from here to there but only a special
  • 00:18:18
    few can deliver a dream come
  • 00:18:22
    true Steve Hartman on the Road in
  • 00:18:25
    Jacksonville
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    Florida you can see why someone might
  • 00:18:30
    hate being a school bus driver the early
  • 00:18:32
    hours when the weather sour the
  • 00:18:34
    abundance of responsibility combined
  • 00:18:37
    with the absence of eyes in the back of
  • 00:18:39
    your head yeah have a good day
  • 00:18:40
    nevertheless as we first reported last
  • 00:18:43
    May Curtis Jenkins loves delivering
  • 00:18:45
    these little ones to Lake Highlands
  • 00:18:47
    Elementary in Dallas Texas yes Emily
  • 00:18:49
    gruninger is the principal he goes Way
  • 00:18:52
    Beyond the outline responsibilities and
  • 00:18:54
    duties of a bus driver I mean that bus
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    is like a family these are my children
  • 00:18:58
    these are my community I love them all
  • 00:19:01
    to establish Community what's your job
  • 00:19:03
    man he starts by giving everyone
  • 00:19:04
    responsibility this is one of the police
  • 00:19:06
    officers it's an elaborate flowchart
  • 00:19:08
    she's the administrative assistant to
  • 00:19:10
    the president administrative assistant
  • 00:19:11
    to the president everyone working
  • 00:19:14
    together to build a yellow bus Utopia
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    and we're going to care about each other
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    and we're going to love everybody right
  • 00:19:20
    I put time effort love care
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    understanding understanding each and
  • 00:19:25
    every one of those kids Omar to show his
  • 00:19:27
    love and understand standing hey CH
  • 00:19:29
    Curtis gives presents throughout the
  • 00:19:31
    year you say you like baseball each gift
  • 00:19:33
    personally selected with that child in
  • 00:19:36
    mind he gave this girl a t-shirt her
  • 00:19:38
    first book with a picture from a book
  • 00:19:40
    she made I'm hoping this t-shirt Inspire
  • 00:19:43
    her to keep on writing books over the
  • 00:19:46
    years he has bought these kids bikes
  • 00:19:48
    backpacks handed out cards on birthdays
  • 00:19:50
    and even turkeys at Thanksgiving he has
  • 00:19:53
    spent thousands out of his own pocket
  • 00:19:56
    and yet if you ask the kids what they
  • 00:19:58
    like most about Curtis the gifts don't
  • 00:20:01
    even come up he helps anyone in need
  • 00:20:05
    Ethan Engel is a sixth grader means a
  • 00:20:08
    lot to you yeah he says the bus ride is
  • 00:20:11
    often the best part of his day my mom
  • 00:20:14
    got divorced when I was only four I see
  • 00:20:16
    you tomorrow he's the father that I
  • 00:20:19
    always
  • 00:20:20
    wanted in some ways I just I wish my dad
  • 00:20:25
    could have been like
  • 00:20:27
    that we make the mistake sometimes of
  • 00:20:30
    thinking certain jobs are more important
  • 00:20:32
    than others I know but Curtis Jenkins
  • 00:20:35
    made his job important and in doing so
  • 00:20:39
    even created his own salary that's the
  • 00:20:42
    paycheck right there if I can get that
  • 00:20:45
    you can keep the
  • 00:20:46
    money he sought no reward but after our
  • 00:20:50
    story first aired the kindness came back
  • 00:20:52
    to him nonetheless when an anonymous
  • 00:20:54
    viewer reached out to school
  • 00:20:55
    superintendent jeie stone with a little
  • 00:20:58
    thank you GI for Curtis you're going to
  • 00:21:00
    be driving this brand new
  • 00:21:03
    car in addition to the car she also gave
  • 00:21:07
    him a promotion Curtis now teaches
  • 00:21:09
    others how to have better student
  • 00:21:11
    relationships for this old bus driver
  • 00:21:14
    2019 sure proved to be quite a ride
  • 00:21:18
    Steve Hartman on the road in
  • 00:21:22
    Dallas finally tonight the journey
  • 00:21:24
    through junior high school can be a long
  • 00:21:26
    one for some students CB Steve Hartman
  • 00:21:29
    has a story of one teenager who truly
  • 00:21:32
    went the distance on the
  • 00:21:35
    road under St Louis's other Arch lies
  • 00:21:39
    Harris Stow State University
  • 00:21:40
    historically black University where last
  • 00:21:43
    month School president latata Collins
  • 00:21:45
    Smith awarded a full ride four-year
  • 00:21:49
    scholarship to a boy she just met and
  • 00:21:52
    knew virtually nothing
  • 00:21:54
    about that kid that day it was something
  • 00:21:59
    that resonated with my
  • 00:22:01
    spirit 14-year-old Xavier Jones had
  • 00:22:05
    started the day on a mission his
  • 00:22:07
    grandfather's car wasn't working and
  • 00:22:09
    Xavier really wanted to be someplace so
  • 00:22:12
    he started walking 6 miles 2 hours
  • 00:22:16
    through tough neighborhoods busy traffic
  • 00:22:19
    and blazing sun at one point he got so
  • 00:22:22
    thirsty he begged someone for a dollar
  • 00:22:24
    to buy something to drink thought about
  • 00:22:27
    turning back but pressed on all just so
  • 00:22:30
    he could walk another 30 ft and collect
  • 00:22:33
    his eighth grade diploma if you like
  • 00:22:36
    really want to get something then you
  • 00:22:38
    have to work hard for it he wanted to be
  • 00:22:42
    present speaks volum Steve half the
  • 00:22:46
    battle is showing
  • 00:22:48
    up so on the spot Colin Smith who just
  • 00:22:53
    happened to be in the auditorium that
  • 00:22:54
    day awarded Xavier a scholarship zavier
  • 00:22:58
    was thrilled albeit for the wrong reason
  • 00:23:02
    he thought that full ride meant he would
  • 00:23:05
    get a ride to college like that he
  • 00:23:07
    wouldn't have to walk here again
  • 00:23:09
    fortunately he's got four years of high
  • 00:23:12
    school to process what it all means with
  • 00:23:14
    the whole engineering piece that you
  • 00:23:15
    want to do until then he plans to keep
  • 00:23:18
    up his grades which were already
  • 00:23:20
    excellent and keep stoking that fire in
  • 00:23:22
    his belly okay it basically comes from
  • 00:23:26
    who I am and the kind of person that I
  • 00:23:28
    want to be which is the same kind of
  • 00:23:31
    person latata Colin Smith wants in her
  • 00:23:34
    school you know often times at colleges
  • 00:23:37
    we spend a lot of time on standardized
  • 00:23:40
    test scores because that's who you are
  • 00:23:44
    right it's not
  • 00:23:46
    true sometimes who you are is better
  • 00:23:50
    measured by how far you've
  • 00:23:53
    come Steve Hartman on the road in St
  • 00:23:57
    Louis
  • 00:24:00
    cbs's Steve Hartman goes on the road to
  • 00:24:02
    an elementary school in Maine where the
  • 00:24:04
    biggest Trend isn't on the students
  • 00:24:06
    phones it's in their
  • 00:24:10
    closets most 8-year-old boys don't get
  • 00:24:13
    dressed to the nines to them suits are
  • 00:24:16
    for bathing and formal is a four-letter
  • 00:24:18
    word but James ramage of Chelsea Maine
  • 00:24:21
    loves to dress for third grade
  • 00:24:25
    success he started a couple years ago
  • 00:24:27
    and at first
  • 00:24:28
    the other kids didn't know what to think
  • 00:24:31
    every time I saw him I was just
  • 00:24:35
    like okay and I'm like why is he
  • 00:24:38
    dressing up James knew he stood out did
  • 00:24:42
    you just decide one day I don't care
  • 00:24:43
    what other people work I don't need to
  • 00:24:45
    look like them anymore I can be who I
  • 00:24:48
    want to be in any school a decision like
  • 00:24:52
    that can go a few different ways you can
  • 00:24:54
    be accepted for who you are ostracized
  • 00:24:58
    for who you aren't or in very rare
  • 00:25:03
    circumstances you can become a trend
  • 00:25:05
    Setter it just kind of started then more
  • 00:25:08
    people started to do it cuz it looked
  • 00:25:10
    fun and now people absolutely love it
  • 00:25:14
    today once a week Chelsea elementary
  • 00:25:17
    kids put on their finest for Dapper
  • 00:25:20
    Wednesday it's not a dress code it's not
  • 00:25:23
    because some adults said so it's because
  • 00:25:26
    the children chose so nice dresses
  • 00:25:30
    teacher Dean pette was an early adopter
  • 00:25:33
    and now an avid Advocate stop look at
  • 00:25:36
    this you look awesome being dressed up
  • 00:25:40
    kids are different it is I think it's a
  • 00:25:42
    self-esteem thing and then it carries
  • 00:25:44
    with them all the way through the day
  • 00:25:46
    all right the kids agree told me they
  • 00:25:48
    love how it feels I'm a little itchy but
  • 00:25:51
    it's fine figuratively speaking it feels
  • 00:25:54
    like I'm not like not a kid anymore it
  • 00:25:57
    made me feel like I was ready for the
  • 00:25:59
    day feels like I'm like a
  • 00:26:02
    president when James started all this he
  • 00:26:05
    had no idea the impact what's it like to
  • 00:26:08
    be a Trends Setter it just feels so nice
  • 00:26:11
    but he doesn't think every kid should
  • 00:26:13
    wear suits just whatever suits them just
  • 00:26:17
    wear what they want to wear
  • 00:26:21
    self-confidence always a good look Steve
  • 00:26:25
    Hartman on the road in Chelsea Maine
  • 00:26:30
    tonight cbs's Steve Hartman goes on the
  • 00:26:32
    road with a college basketball coach who
  • 00:26:34
    gave a big assist to a young cancer
  • 00:26:39
    patient you can't hear him over the
  • 00:26:41
    crowd and that may be a good thing as
  • 00:26:44
    Auburn University coach Bruce Pearl
  • 00:26:47
    sneers and snars his way through yet
  • 00:26:49
    another basketball game you see him on
  • 00:26:52
    the court being tough and stuff with all
  • 00:26:53
    players but there's a whole totally
  • 00:26:55
    different side of Bruce outside of
  • 00:26:56
    basketball which is is a nice loving and
  • 00:26:59
    caring
  • 00:27:00
    person Auburn freshman Sam Cunningham's
  • 00:27:04
    unique perspective comes from his
  • 00:27:06
    greatest struggle when he was 12 Sam was
  • 00:27:10
    diagnosed with leukemia and not long
  • 00:27:12
    after someone asked coach Pearl to
  • 00:27:15
    record a video for him you going to beat
  • 00:27:16
    this son cancer pick the wrong ombre
  • 00:27:19
    pick the wrong dude to mess with okay it
  • 00:27:23
    was just real funny to me cancer picked
  • 00:27:24
    the wrong ombre it picked the wrong dude
  • 00:27:26
    to mess with that quote is why kept with
  • 00:27:28
    me when I got in my darkest days in the
  • 00:27:30
    hospital and stuff through all his
  • 00:27:33
    complications you going to beat this son
  • 00:27:35
    through his relapse pick the wrong ombre
  • 00:27:38
    through the days that felt like they
  • 00:27:40
    would be his last pick the wrong dude to
  • 00:27:43
    mess with Sam kept watching that video
  • 00:27:46
    over and over okay eventually coach
  • 00:27:50
    Pearl delivered the same lines in person
  • 00:27:52
    pick the wrong dude and they became
  • 00:27:54
    friends thank you and then one day Bruce
  • 00:27:57
    gave him another even more inspiring
  • 00:28:00
    message tell you what you're going to
  • 00:28:02
    get better you're going to come to
  • 00:28:04
    Auburn and you're going to be my
  • 00:28:05
    assistant and he takes me at my word he
  • 00:28:08
    believed it he did and he
  • 00:28:10
    is today he is the team manager and so
  • 00:28:15
    happy to be here in fact Sam says coach
  • 00:28:18
    Pearl's encouragement may have saved his
  • 00:28:21
    life do that you that truly healed me I
  • 00:28:24
    didn't think IID really get to this
  • 00:28:25
    point from all the complications I had
  • 00:28:28
    so that was pretty amazing I'm just a
  • 00:28:30
    miracle to be here right
  • 00:28:32
    now this month college coaches across
  • 00:28:36
    the country will be praying for a
  • 00:28:37
    national championship but here at Auburn
  • 00:28:41
    this coach will be asking for something
  • 00:28:43
    far more
  • 00:28:45
    consequential in my prayers it's God
  • 00:28:48
    don't let this thing
  • 00:28:49
    relapse take
  • 00:28:51
    me let Sam
  • 00:28:55
    live basketball seasons come and go but
  • 00:29:00
    great coaching lasts
  • 00:29:04
    forever Steve Hartman on the road in
  • 00:29:07
    Auburn
  • 00:29:10
    Alabama cbs's Steve Hartman heads to New
  • 00:29:13
    England for a real life Queens Gambit on
  • 00:29:16
    the
  • 00:29:17
    road the students at weatherbe
  • 00:29:19
    Elementary in Hampton Maine seem
  • 00:29:22
    peaceful enough but start a war on this
  • 00:29:25
    Turf and these rookies with their Night
  • 00:29:29
    Moves become a Royal Pawn in the chess
  • 00:29:32
    to anyone who dares try to Dethrone
  • 00:29:34
    their King which is how they became the
  • 00:29:38
    new main State chess Champions it was so
  • 00:29:43
    like exciting everybody was cheering
  • 00:29:46
    just like feels like you could fly a
  • 00:29:48
    special like one in a million in fact
  • 00:29:51
    the only thing more unlikely than their
  • 00:29:53
    success is where they found it here in
  • 00:29:57
    the broom closet school custodian David
  • 00:30:01
    Bishop used to play chess as a kid so
  • 00:30:04
    when years later he found himself
  • 00:30:06
    cleaning the hall outside the weatherbe
  • 00:30:08
    chess club he says he felt drawn like he
  • 00:30:12
    had to be part of it and at the time I I
  • 00:30:15
    didn't really have any thought of how to
  • 00:30:17
    teach I'd never done that before I
  • 00:30:20
    didn't really think he had a good
  • 00:30:21
    background like for doing it but he
  • 00:30:22
    obviously does his name is Mr Bishop
  • 00:30:25
    which is pretty cool he took over and
  • 00:30:28
    and here we
  • 00:30:30
    are 5 minute game where they are is a
  • 00:30:34
    community of intensely focused little
  • 00:30:36
    Minds who play like a real kingdom is at
  • 00:30:38
    stake what happens is yes there's an
  • 00:30:40
    attack here and although no one here is
  • 00:30:42
    a master the king's coming out way too
  • 00:30:44
    early Mr Bishop has convinced every last
  • 00:30:47
    one of them that they have the
  • 00:30:50
    potential what I tell them is if you
  • 00:30:52
    love it you're going to be better than
  • 00:30:54
    the top player we have they say no that
  • 00:30:57
    can't be yes if you love it you'll never
  • 00:30:59
    give up and you're going to get better
  • 00:31:00
    and better as the months and years go
  • 00:31:04
    by sometimes we make the mistake of
  • 00:31:07
    thinking our job descriptions are a box
  • 00:31:11
    confining who we are and what we do but
  • 00:31:14
    David Bishop sees it differently he says
  • 00:31:18
    when they told him to make this school
  • 00:31:20
    shine they never said
  • 00:31:22
    how I found my purpose Steve Hartman on
  • 00:31:27
    the road it's a lesson learned near
  • 00:31:28
    Banger
  • 00:31:31
    main cbs's Steve Hartman finds that
  • 00:31:34
    sometimes the best lessons happen on the
  • 00:31:36
    bus ride home from school here's this
  • 00:31:39
    week's on the
  • 00:31:42
    road it was end of day for students at
  • 00:31:44
    Carter Middle School in Warren Michigan
  • 00:31:47
    but for those on bus 46 that April
  • 00:31:50
    afternoon it was the beginning of an
  • 00:31:52
    unforgettable ordeal and all of a sudden
  • 00:31:56
    the brakes get slammed we all were just
  • 00:31:58
    terrified and shocked and that's when I
  • 00:32:01
    like looked up and saw
  • 00:32:03
    him seventh grader Dylan Reeves had
  • 00:32:05
    grabbed the steering wheel soon after
  • 00:32:08
    police called the boy's father and
  • 00:32:10
    stepmother Steve and Etta are you the
  • 00:32:13
    parent of Dylan Reeves and I said yes
  • 00:32:16
    and I go what do you do and he goes no
  • 00:32:18
    this is a good phone call your son's a
  • 00:32:20
    hero he stopped the bus stop the bus
  • 00:32:24
    what what the officer went on to explain
  • 00:32:28
    and security footage shows how Dylan
  • 00:32:30
    noticed the driver was having a medical
  • 00:32:31
    emergency and immediately sprang from
  • 00:32:34
    his seat I just knew what to do in that
  • 00:32:37
    moment the bus was swerving off the road
  • 00:32:41
    so Dylan Took the Wheel hit the brake
  • 00:32:44
    and gain control of the situation saving
  • 00:32:47
    driver and students someone call
  • 00:32:51
    911 a true hero no doubt but we still
  • 00:32:55
    had a question why didn't anyone else
  • 00:32:58
    noticed what was happening Well turns
  • 00:33:00
    out have my airpods in virtually every
  • 00:33:03
    kid was looking at my phone was on a
  • 00:33:06
    device I was on my phone playing a
  • 00:33:08
    little game we hear a lot about the
  • 00:33:11
    consequences of too much screen time but
  • 00:33:14
    one thing I never considered until now
  • 00:33:16
    is the loss of situational awareness
  • 00:33:19
    what's happening around them and yet
  • 00:33:21
    somehow at least one kid on that bus
  • 00:33:23
    instantly recognized what was happening
  • 00:33:26
    and he guesses as do why I know why cuz
  • 00:33:30
    my son does not have a cell phone and
  • 00:33:32
    Steve says that's the lesson here what
  • 00:33:35
    else you going to do when you don't have
  • 00:33:36
    a phone you're going to look at people
  • 00:33:37
    you're going to notice stuff you're
  • 00:33:38
    going to look out the window it's a very
  • 00:33:40
    powerful lesson maybe change World kind
  • 00:33:43
    of lesson I don't know at least a save
  • 00:33:46
    the bus kind of lesson and they say
  • 00:33:48
    reason enough to hold off getting him a
  • 00:33:51
    phone for another day how do you feel
  • 00:33:53
    about that whatever my parents are
  • 00:33:58
    old school but for good
  • 00:34:01
    reason I
  • 00:34:03
    guess sometimes even heroes have it
  • 00:34:07
    hard Steve Hartman on the road near
  • 00:34:13
    Detroit finally tonight a lesson in
  • 00:34:15
    never giving up even when it seems the
  • 00:34:17
    odds are stacked against you need proof
  • 00:34:21
    cbs's Steve Hartman found it on the
  • 00:34:24
    road technically 13-year-old Josiah
  • 00:34:27
    Johnson of Louisville Kentucky has a
  • 00:34:30
    disability but almost no one sees it
  • 00:34:33
    because Josiah doesn't see it although
  • 00:34:37
    born without legs the kid has yet to
  • 00:34:39
    find his Kryptonite always did
  • 00:34:42
    everything the other kids did but that
  • 00:34:45
    invincibility was put to the test last
  • 00:34:47
    fall when Josiah decided to try out for
  • 00:34:50
    the one sport where altitude is
  • 00:34:52
    everything the Moore Middle School
  • 00:34:55
    basketball team at this point may be
  • 00:34:58
    wondering why didn't he just join a
  • 00:34:59
    wheelchair basketball team it would
  • 00:35:01
    certainly be a lot easier well Josiah
  • 00:35:05
    says exactly it was easy it was too easy
  • 00:35:09
    you wanted more of a challenge yeah the
  • 00:35:11
    gumption it takes to be able to say I'm
  • 00:35:13
    going to go out and do that who has that
  • 00:35:15
    kind of
  • 00:35:16
    confidence
  • 00:35:18
    me but as mother Whitney says it's not
  • 00:35:21
    just confidence it's
  • 00:35:23
    stubbornness Josiah is very competitive
  • 00:35:26
    and if he feels like something is too
  • 00:35:28
    easy he's not going to do it still
  • 00:35:32
    Josiah knew making the team was a long
  • 00:35:34
    shot fortunately though Josiah turned
  • 00:35:37
    out to be pretty good at long
  • 00:35:41
    shots he made the
  • 00:35:43
    team on his
  • 00:35:45
    merits and over the last few months has
  • 00:35:48
    become a real contributor getting
  • 00:35:50
    offensive rebounds assists and because
  • 00:35:54
    of his unique position on the floor he
  • 00:35:56
    has caused more than a few
  • 00:35:58
    turnovers he started taking the ball
  • 00:36:00
    from people he took the ball from me I
  • 00:36:02
    was mad you would have thought Steph
  • 00:36:04
    Curry was in the gym but his teammates
  • 00:36:06
    say his best play was a couple weeks ago
  • 00:36:09
    it was just a moment that I'm going to
  • 00:36:11
    remember for like ever it was the end of
  • 00:36:14
    the game seconds remaining Josiah shoots
  • 00:36:16
    from
  • 00:36:18
    three and again his
  • 00:36:21
    disability
  • 00:36:23
    [Applause]
  • 00:36:24
    disappeared what do you want people to
  • 00:36:27
    take away from from this to do something
  • 00:36:30
    that they thought they couldn't
  • 00:36:32
    do Josiah Johnson inspiration and proof
  • 00:36:36
    that all you need to stand above is
  • 00:36:40
    confidence Steve Hartman on the road in
  • 00:36:44
    Louisville
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    [Applause]
  • 00:36:46
    Kentucky there's a tiny island off the
  • 00:36:48
    New England coast where one can find
  • 00:36:50
    solitude but what about gratitude Steve
  • 00:36:53
    Hartman is on the
  • 00:36:56
    road this is hardly Alcatraz but for a
  • 00:36:59
    kid on cudy hunk Island in Massachusetts
  • 00:37:02
    going to school here can sometimes feel
  • 00:37:04
    like
  • 00:37:05
    solitary 13-year-old Gwen Lynch is the
  • 00:37:09
    only student in a one- room Schoolhouse
  • 00:37:11
    it's just her and her teacher Miss
  • 00:37:13
    carvalo na you won't find a smaller
  • 00:37:16
    School anywhere in these United States
  • 00:37:19
    justice for all happy Wednesday Gwen has
  • 00:37:21
    lived on the island her entire life
  • 00:37:23
    there were other kids including her
  • 00:37:25
    older brother but everyone else is is
  • 00:37:27
    gone leaving Gwen to make the most of
  • 00:37:29
    her solo situation we've done plays how
  • 00:37:32
    could you do a play a lot of different
  • 00:37:34
    parts you played all the parts oh yeah
  • 00:37:36
    did everybody in town come yeah so it's
  • 00:37:38
    pretty empty in there yeah there was
  • 00:37:41
    like 12 that's it yeah 12 that's the
  • 00:37:45
    year round population of cudy hunk the
  • 00:37:47
    place is mostly a summer vacation
  • 00:37:49
    destination now although this week the
  • 00:37:52
    census swelled
  • 00:37:54
    tfold friends and family flocking to
  • 00:37:56
    witness hunk Elementary's last
  • 00:37:59
    graduation ever after today the school
  • 00:38:03
    built in 1873 to teach fisherman kids
  • 00:38:06
    will close due to zero enrollment but
  • 00:38:10
    that little school went out big they got
  • 00:38:12
    comedian and actress Jenny slate to do
  • 00:38:15
    the commencement address I somehow
  • 00:38:17
    thought that you would be out here
  • 00:38:18
    churning butter wearing a pfor and a
  • 00:38:20
    hoop
  • 00:38:21
    skirt next fall Gwen will go to a
  • 00:38:24
    boarding High School on the mainland I'm
  • 00:38:26
    so excited
  • 00:38:28
    um even though it's a smaller school I
  • 00:38:30
    still wait wait no it's not what do you
  • 00:38:32
    mean it's a smaller School compared to
  • 00:38:34
    other high schools but still that's
  • 00:38:36
    going to be a huge change yeah how you
  • 00:38:38
    going to deal with it I'm going to love
  • 00:38:39
    it but really just to see like other
  • 00:38:42
    people besides my mother and father like
  • 00:38:44
    every single day of my life she's ready
  • 00:38:46
    to soar these are the BS she's
  • 00:38:49
    referencing Dwayne and Lexi say their
  • 00:38:51
    daughter has been asking to leave this
  • 00:38:53
    island since she was eight although as
  • 00:38:55
    far as they're concerned Gwen had anide
  • 00:38:57
    idilic childhood and they're confident
  • 00:38:59
    someday she'll appreciate it I don't
  • 00:39:02
    know I mean I didn't thank my mother for
  • 00:39:03
    anything until I was probably 25 but I
  • 00:39:05
    thank her all the time now maybe it'll
  • 00:39:07
    be in the speech today here's the hoping
  • 00:39:08
    but from from our interview I don't
  • 00:39:10
    think she's ready then again graduations
  • 00:39:13
    demand reflection and it's almost
  • 00:39:16
    impossible to celebrate the
  • 00:39:17
    opportunities that lie ahead without
  • 00:39:20
    recognizing often for the first time the
  • 00:39:23
    opportunities behind thank you for
  • 00:39:26
    raising me thank you for teaching me
  • 00:39:29
    thank you for giving me the best
  • 00:39:30
    beginning a child could ask
  • 00:39:33
    for a class of one but a message for
  • 00:39:36
    every parent of every 2019
  • 00:39:39
    graduate Steve Hartman out to see on
  • 00:39:43
    cudy hunk Island
  • 00:39:47
    Massachusetts we love to end the week on
  • 00:39:50
    a high note and Steve Hartman was happy
  • 00:39:52
    to oblig here's tonight's on the
  • 00:39:55
    road he's only in thir third grade but
  • 00:39:58
    9-year-old Henry Boer of Howell Michigan
  • 00:40:01
    already knows what he wants to be last
  • 00:40:03
    fall he attended his first University of
  • 00:40:06
    Michigan football game and he was wowed
  • 00:40:10
    they were that good my mind was blown of
  • 00:40:12
    how good they played but it wasn't the
  • 00:40:14
    football that he fell
  • 00:40:16
    for it was the marching band and from
  • 00:40:19
    that moment to this Henry has been
  • 00:40:21
    rocking out to their CD Let's Go Blue
  • 00:40:24
    and watching old halftime shows on
  • 00:40:26
    YouTube he even wrote a letter to the
  • 00:40:28
    band saying how he'd love to sign up
  • 00:40:30
    someday in response they sent him a
  • 00:40:33
    bunch of Swag and a card inviting him to
  • 00:40:36
    audition when he's old enough I just
  • 00:40:39
    really like the card what were you
  • 00:40:41
    feeling in that moment surprised and
  • 00:40:43
    heartwarming his mother got it on video
  • 00:40:46
    what did they say they said they going
  • 00:40:49
    to accept me in a few years into what
  • 00:40:52
    into the marching band are you excited
  • 00:40:55
    yes I'm really excited that was nice of
  • 00:40:57
    them huh Jeff and Kim Boer yeah I mean
  • 00:41:01
    just such a simple act to to reach back
  • 00:41:03
    out to him it it's changed his world
  • 00:41:06
    well yeah he's on fire for music now
  • 00:41:09
    Henry asked if he could double up on
  • 00:41:10
    piano lessons and started taking drums
  • 00:41:13
    too like the card said practice hard and
  • 00:41:16
    I will practice hard so you can get
  • 00:41:18
    there someday yes I just have a really
  • 00:41:20
    good feeling that I'm going to be in the
  • 00:41:22
    marching band if all goes as planned
  • 00:41:25
    Henry will join the band in the fall of
  • 00:41:27
    2029 but we thought and the school
  • 00:41:30
    agreed that's an awfully long time to
  • 00:41:31
    wait for a dream to come true so we set
  • 00:41:34
    up a little surprise right behind this
  • 00:41:38
    door no way Henry this is your Michigan
  • 00:41:41
    marching van no
  • 00:41:43
    [Music]
  • 00:41:51
    [Applause]
  • 00:41:53
    way
  • 00:41:55
    W we're so excited to have you here with
  • 00:41:58
    us Henry I can't believe I'm
  • 00:42:01
    here the Michigan marching band wrote
  • 00:42:04
    out a single note and just look at the
  • 00:42:06
    symphony that followed you got it a
  • 00:42:09
    masterpiece of kindness and inspiration
  • 00:42:11
    that struck a major chord in this young
  • 00:42:13
    man's life so now hopefully no matter
  • 00:42:17
    where his music takes him Henry will
  • 00:42:19
    always follow the lead of this marching
  • 00:42:21
    band and play it
  • 00:42:25
    forward nice job
  • 00:42:27
    Steve Hartman on the road you guys have
  • 00:42:30
    the best music
  • 00:42:32
    ever in Ann Arbor Michigan can't wait to
  • 00:42:35
    join oh yeah it'll come
  • 00:42:39
    soon there are few things in this world
  • 00:42:41
    more powerful than a child with a dream
  • 00:42:44
    and in this week's on the road cbs's
  • 00:42:46
    Steve Hartman shows us how a group of
  • 00:42:48
    Minnesota school kids used their dream
  • 00:42:50
    to help their fellow
  • 00:42:53
    classmates at Glen Lake Elementary in
  • 00:42:56
    Hopkins Minnesota recess is a mixed
  • 00:42:59
    blessing on the one hand there's so much
  • 00:43:02
    to do but on the other hand not everyone
  • 00:43:06
    can do it it just didn't seem fair that
  • 00:43:09
    some kids were just left out and it's
  • 00:43:12
    really sad to see other kids go through
  • 00:43:15
    that they didn't look happy in recess is
  • 00:43:17
    about having fun Glenn Lake has a lot of
  • 00:43:21
    students with physical disabilities but
  • 00:43:23
    no wheelchair marry ground swings or any
  • 00:43:26
    adaptive playground equipment whatsoever
  • 00:43:28
    come on in which really bothered the
  • 00:43:31
    kids in Betsy Julian's fifth grade class
  • 00:43:34
    to the point where one day they asked
  • 00:43:35
    her why can't we just buy the equipment
  • 00:43:38
    ourselves I said do you know how much
  • 00:43:39
    that cost yeah cost a lot of money
  • 00:43:42
    300,000
  • 00:43:44
    $300,000 by her estimation but the kids
  • 00:43:47
    were
  • 00:43:48
    undeterred they started collecting spare
  • 00:43:50
    change then held a bake sale printed
  • 00:43:53
    fires and went door too then they began
  • 00:43:56
    cold calling business businesses and
  • 00:43:57
    even got restaurants to donate a portion
  • 00:43:59
    of their profits this went on for months
  • 00:44:03
    until last week when they hit their
  • 00:44:07
    goal we were all very happy on the
  • 00:44:10
    inside and on the outside the smile on
  • 00:44:13
    my face I could say was an earto ear
  • 00:44:16
    smile I was just really
  • 00:44:18
    happy that we made
  • 00:44:21
    it reys Riley says they worked so hard
  • 00:44:25
    it was overwhelming to finally know more
  • 00:44:27
    inclusive playground would be coming
  • 00:44:29
    you're a good kid thanks and as for the
  • 00:44:32
    kids who will benefit they seem to
  • 00:44:34
    appreciate the effort almost more than
  • 00:44:37
    the result first time I set foot on this
  • 00:44:40
    playground I'm probably going to start
  • 00:44:43
    crying from seeing the effort that all
  • 00:44:46
    the school has made Mrs Julian couldn't
  • 00:44:50
    agree more my future as an adult is
  • 00:44:53
    bright knowing that this generation of
  • 00:44:55
    students of changed makers see something
  • 00:44:58
    that needs fixing and they go for it
  • 00:45:02
    head first the whole thing head first
  • 00:45:05
    and dive deep what's our next step after
  • 00:45:08
    raising the 300,000 Mrs Julian's class
  • 00:45:11
    set a new goal to the ceiling and Beyond
  • 00:45:15
    they now hope to buy adaptive playground
  • 00:45:17
    equipment for other schools in the
  • 00:45:19
    district turning loneliness and
  • 00:45:21
    isolation into Child's Play There we go
  • 00:45:25
    Steve Hartman on the road in Hopkins
  • 00:45:30
    Minnesota we end the week with a
  • 00:45:31
    teachable moment from Steve Hartman on
  • 00:45:34
    the
  • 00:45:37
    road a good teacher will do almost
  • 00:45:40
    anything for a student all right so
  • 00:45:41
    we're good so far but few have gone so
  • 00:45:43
    far as Donna hogland teacher at Marsh
  • 00:45:46
    Point Elementary in Palm Beach Gardens
  • 00:45:48
    Florida not two to it all started when
  • 00:45:50
    Donna noticed a change in one of her
  • 00:45:52
    fourth graders Troy vul look and it did
  • 00:45:55
    affect his morning Behavior
  • 00:45:57
    he was just shut down at times she
  • 00:45:59
    suspected there was a reason for she
  • 00:46:01
    suspected there was something going on
  • 00:46:03
    so she asked me if anything had changed
  • 00:46:04
    in home this is Troy's mother anahita
  • 00:46:08
    she told Donna the truth that for the
  • 00:46:10
    past year she's been in stage five
  • 00:46:13
    kidney failure you okay babe pain she
  • 00:46:17
    has this severe pain almost daily and
  • 00:46:20
    because she has a rare blood type the
  • 00:46:21
    odds of finding a kidy donor are slim
  • 00:46:25
    when my parents told me about the kidney
  • 00:46:29
    failing stuff I was getting a little
  • 00:46:31
    down what was your worst
  • 00:46:33
    fear my mom not getting kidney
  • 00:46:36
    ever as you can see Troy has tried to
  • 00:46:39
    keep a brave front I can't believe it
  • 00:46:42
    fortunately he found a friend in Donna I
  • 00:46:44
    really just hate it no buddy she's been
  • 00:46:47
    there for him every step of the way to
  • 00:46:50
    think what he must go through seeing his
  • 00:46:53
    mom being sick all the time that's not
  • 00:46:56
    fair and you felt like you could fix
  • 00:46:58
    that I
  • 00:47:00
    can turns out Donna has the same rare
  • 00:47:04
    blood type so unbeknownst to Troy's
  • 00:47:07
    family she spent months researching how
  • 00:47:10
    to become a Kidney donor and then called
  • 00:47:12
    up anahita for the best parent teacher
  • 00:47:15
    conference of all time I'm like what are
  • 00:47:19
    you talking about she turns around and
  • 00:47:21
    she's like we're a
  • 00:47:23
    match how do you say thank you you can't
  • 00:47:27
    you really
  • 00:47:28
    can't the transplant happened over
  • 00:47:30
    Christmas break and today everyone is
  • 00:47:32
    doing well donor recipient and the boy
  • 00:47:36
    they both
  • 00:47:37
    cherish the one thing I love about my
  • 00:47:40
    mom's kidney transplant what's that is
  • 00:47:43
    that we all get a gift the same
  • 00:47:47
    gift it's not a gift that can be wrapped
  • 00:47:50
    in a present it's like a miracle a
  • 00:47:52
    perfect match is a
  • 00:47:54
    miracle of course the other Miracle is
  • 00:47:56
    Donna and teachers like her who love our
  • 00:47:59
    children as their own cheers for mommy's
  • 00:48:02
    new kidney no they don't all give up
  • 00:48:04
    their kidneys but make no mistake
  • 00:48:06
    teachers save us parents every
  • 00:48:10
    day Steve Hartman on the road in Palm
  • 00:48:14
    Beach Gardens
  • 00:48:19
    Florida remember back in school when
  • 00:48:21
    they dragged you into the gym for an
  • 00:48:23
    assembly pretty boring right well here's
  • 00:48:25
    one that was Absolut abolutely
  • 00:48:28
    lifechanging Steve Hartman has tonight's
  • 00:48:30
    on the
  • 00:48:32
    road it was build as the surprise of a
  • 00:48:36
    lifetime does anybody know what this is
  • 00:48:37
    about and sure enough they didn't tell
  • 00:48:38
    you anything when these high school
  • 00:48:40
    seniors gathered for the big reveal
  • 00:48:42
    knows up walked a guy they'd never seen
  • 00:48:45
    to tell them something they'd never
  • 00:48:48
    forget right now this next
  • 00:48:50
    minute is the most important moment of
  • 00:48:53
    my
  • 00:48:54
    life Pete Cadence is a wealthy
  • 00:48:57
    businessman he grew up here in Toledo
  • 00:48:59
    Ohio and he says the time has come to
  • 00:49:02
    give back I think that Toledo could be
  • 00:49:05
    one of the most Equitable Middle Market
  • 00:49:07
    communities in this country and so if
  • 00:49:09
    you want to make a big difference you go
  • 00:49:11
    to the epicenter of an equity Scott high
  • 00:49:14
    school has some of the most
  • 00:49:15
    disadvantaged students in the state but
  • 00:49:18
    the school is still rich with dreams
  • 00:49:20
    kids like senior Chris Roland who would
  • 00:49:22
    love to go to college but can't afford
  • 00:49:25
    it especially now
  • 00:49:27
    last fall Chris's mom abina lost her job
  • 00:49:31
    and his dad died in a house fire yeah my
  • 00:49:35
    dad was the closest person I had in my
  • 00:49:37
    life in his later days he was really
  • 00:49:39
    pushing me to go to college he kept
  • 00:49:41
    saying you're really smart you should
  • 00:49:42
    think about going he was such an awesome
  • 00:49:45
    father if he's still going to make him
  • 00:49:47
    proud I know he is just got to figure
  • 00:49:49
    out a path yep fortunately unbeknownst
  • 00:49:54
    to Chris that path to a brighter future
  • 00:49:58
    was about to find him and if you're
  • 00:50:00
    sitting here in this room today as ass
  • 00:50:02
    soon to be graduating senior tuition
  • 00:50:04
    room and board books and fees will be
  • 00:50:06
    paid for you and you will go to college
  • 00:50:09
    for
  • 00:50:13
    free and there was more because poverty
  • 00:50:16
    is an intergenerational problem and
  • 00:50:18
    because he is determined to Snuff it out
  • 00:50:20
    in this community Pete offered each kid
  • 00:50:23
    a study partner so too can one of your
  • 00:50:26
    parents go to college or trade school
  • 00:50:28
    for
  • 00:50:30
    free aena says she always wanted to be a
  • 00:50:33
    school
  • 00:50:35
    counselor altogether this could cost
  • 00:50:37
    Pete up to $3 million and now he wants
  • 00:50:40
    to get others to pitch in to expand the
  • 00:50:43
    program to every Public School in Toledo
  • 00:50:45
    and this is how we changed the world
  • 00:50:48
    which is why if you could look up
  • 00:50:50
    through that gym ceiling as Chris did
  • 00:50:54
    I'm sure you'd see a dad beaming
  • 00:50:57
    with
  • 00:50:58
    gratitude Steve Hartman on the road in
  • 00:51:02
    Toledo
  • 00:51:04
    Ohio holiday season is a time to count
  • 00:51:07
    our blessings and spread joy to those
  • 00:51:09
    around us cbs's Steve Hartman found a
  • 00:51:12
    group of kids doing that and more on the
  • 00:51:17
    road the red caps were the only clue the
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    only hint that something Christmas was a
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    foot here we go something that would
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    soon strike straight to the heart are
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    you guys serious
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    seriously God the kids responsible for
  • 00:51:35
    these moments of overwhelming Joy are
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    all students and former students of
  • 00:51:39
    Derek Brown lights please a phoenix
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    elementary teacher who uses our on the
  • 00:51:44
    road stories to teach kindness and
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    character a perennial favorite secret
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    Santa that wealthy businessman who every
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    year gives out hundreds of hundred bills
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    to random strangers this impossible this
  • 00:51:57
    is impossible it is possible it's true
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    watching secret Santa do his
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    thing made a huge impression on the kids
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    I was like shocked because well who does
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    that I've never seen anyone like give
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    just give money away like that could you
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    imagine that someday it would be you no
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    not
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    ever and so with guidance from Mr Brown
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    I sent everybody an itinerary the kids
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    started a secret santa club and began
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    fundraising calling friends family and
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    businesses they raised
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    $8,000 without any help from their
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    school or District just so they could
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    turn around and give it all away it's
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    okay to people like Rosemarie
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    Hernandez Rosemarie had been out of work
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    for a week you will give me a lot of
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    relief thank you thank you thank you you
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    guys oh my God they also gave money to D
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    Dre Taylor oh my God DED Dre had just
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    gotten diagnosed with cancer and was
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    down to her last $20 you guys are
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    amazing get the children spent the day
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    changing dozens of lives and along the
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    way they noticed something remarkable
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    that the more they gave the more they
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    got I'm so happy right now you get so
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    many feelings in your body that just
  • 00:53:25
    makes you like want to do it again
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    their Joy that's the gift to you their
  • 00:53:30
    Joy that's the gift to you exactly the
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    realization Mr Brown was hoping
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    for I want this memory to be so strong
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    that it now drives them every day in
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    everything they do did today change
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    you definitely I never felt this way in
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    my life so this was really a life Cher
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    for me
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    whoever said money can't buy happiness
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    obviously never gave it
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    away Steve Hartman on the road in
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    Phoenix God bless you too
الوسوم
  • kindness
  • community
  • resilience
  • family
  • education
  • support
  • health
  • empowerment
  • kind acts
  • inspiration