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This week, we're celebrating a bald eagle comeback story, a summer camp closing its doors for the best reason, and a bride who finally got to wear the dress of her dreams after a life-changing gift ✨

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Happy Headlines 📰

It’s not all doom and gloom out there. Here’s some positive news items from publications around the world.

🦅 The bald eagle's soaring comeback: from near extinction to official US bird

🔋 Renewables produced 24% of the US’s energy in the first 10 months of 2024

🏕️ Summer camp for HIV-positive kids closes down–because there aren’t any more

🎗️ Youngest person treated by Nanoknife technology is cancer-free

🏈 Young fan gets to keep game ball after it was taken by security

🎮 PlayStations for guns are offered up in New Orleans

🏠 Man creates tiny mobile homes to help unhoused people escape the cold

The Weekend Long Read ☕

“It made me a beautiful bride that I have always hoped and dreamt of being.”

A double amputee wore a dress for the first time on her wedding day – after a lifetime of hiding her old prosthetics was over thanks to state-of-the-art new legs.

Katarina Floridia, 27, from Ashland, Massachusetts, had always been embarrassed about her situation, refusing to wear a dress and covering her legs even on sweltering hot beach days or trips away with friends and family.

But thanks to her new prosthetic legs – which were overseen by A Step Ahead Prosthetics to match her skin color and accommodate heels – Katarina was able to make her dream come true by walking down the aisle in confidence with her father on her arm.

Quick Lifts ❤️

Heartwarming human interest stories from Happilynews.com guaranteed to put a smile on your face.

Missing Dog Returns Home for Christmas by Ringing Doorbell

When Brooke Comer’s beloved German Shepherd Husky mix called Athena escaped from her home in Florida, she spent more than a week desperately searching for her. But then, on Christmas Eve, at 2:30am, her Ring doorbell went. And who was at the door? Athena!

Class Helps Out With Teacher’s Dream Proposal, Holding Up Signs to Spell Out “Will You Marry Me?”

A 3rd-grade class helped their teacher’s boyfriend propose in the most wholesome way when they held up cards that helped him pop the question.

Bride Springs Surprise Visit on Grandma Who Couldn’t Make Her Wedding

After Dinahlee’s grandma couldn’t make her wedding day due to ill health, she devised a plan to bring the wedding to her. With the whole wedding party waiting, she diverted to her grandma’s nursing home to surprise her in her dress.

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Before You Go…A Serotonin Booster* 📺

Grandmas Surprised With Twin Grandkids

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