Let Us Each Other Tell Happy Tales - Gawker

[Swede]

Nice idea.
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This has been a sad slog of a week for humanity, with suicides, overdoses, abuses, and intolerance of everything brought to the fore. Can we take a deep breath as we approach the weekend and think happier thoughts.

1st reply:I was driving with my uncle in the countryside on a summer afternoon when we received a call from my cousin (his niece) telling us that she had just given birth to the first member of the next generation of our family. The baby was named for my Uncle's wife who had died that year of cancer. When he hung up the phone, we continued to drive silently with tears of joy and sadness streaming down our faces.

2nd reply:My brother died at the age of 26, when I was 14. He was brilliant, sarcastic and hilarious, yet endlessly kind and patient with me, and he was/is my hero. A few months after he died, his widow realized she was pregnant with his child. His son, my oldest nephew, is such a great kid and the funny thing is, he has some of my brother's mannerisms without ever having met him. So, he's made us very happy in many different unexpected ways.

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