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Hear the incredible story of a pair of coincidences, along with a husband’s hunch, that saved a woman from possible brain damage. Hear The Good News Guru tell the inspiring story (from the May 18, 2018 Ellen K. Morning Show on KOST-103.5 radio).
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It was a seemingly normal evening in Cincinnati when Bobbi Byrd fell asleep watching TV with her husband Ron—but it would turn out to be anything but normal.
He heard Bobbi suddenly make a strange sound even though she was asleep—he also heeded a voice telling him to call 911 – and it’s a good thing he did, because Bobbi was suffering a stroke.
As fate would have it, Dr. Andy Ringer was on call that night at TriHealth Good Samaritan Hospital.
As Bobbi was taken into the emergency room, Ron prayed for help.
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“I’m thinking to myself this isn’t real,” Ron told WKRC. “I said ‘Lord, I know you are here, but I need some reassurance that this is going to be okay.’”
About 20 minutes later, in a strange turn of events, Dr. Ringer came walking in. He said, “‘I’m Andy, your niece’s husband.’”
When the neurosurgeon had earlier seen his patient’s name, he realized that the woman he was about to save was his wife’s aunt whom he’d never met.
Not only that, but Andy is one of just a few surgeons in the country trained to perform a groundbreaking procedure that can reverse the onset of effects from a stroke.
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Using a device called a Stent Retriever, Andy’s team was able to extract the blockage that caused the brain injury and restore the crucial blood flow.
It’s the first advancement in stroke patient care in twenty years—and it is monumental: it’s been likened to the advent of penicillin.
Before that, the disabling blockage almost consistently resulted in paralysis, brain damage, speech problems, or death.
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“These procedures reverse otherwise fatal or severely disabling strokes,” said Alexander Khalessi, vice chairman of neurological surgery at University of California San Diego Medical Center. “The magnitude of the advance cannot be overstated.”
Not many people can say they’ve suffered a stroke and emerged to return to their normal lives, but now Bobbie can—thanks to a family member she never knew, and a husband who heeds to his hunches.
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New Zealand has made headlines in the past for their side-splitting public service announcement videos – and their most recent short film is no exception.
As a means of drawing in tourists to their little country, Tourism New Zealand recently produced a viral clip about a dastardly nationwide conspiracy: New Zealand is “disappearing” from world maps.
Comedic actor Rhys Darby and New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern immediately tackle the case so they can investigate exactly why Kiwis are being left off the globe.
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The dynamic duo uncovers several clues as to the country’s disappearance, and they mostly have to do with the jealousy of other nations – from England feeling covetous of their rugby glory to France trying to steal the title for “best wine”.
Regardless, the video’s dry humor is just another example of why more people actually ought to visit New Zealand – but if you need a bit more motivation, Tourism New Zealand also provided ten more reasons why they deserve to be on everyone’s map.
(WATCH the amusing video below)
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It’s amazing what some closure can do for a person – or for a dog.
Sadie, a 13-year-old border collie-dalmatian-shepherd mutt, had been mourning the loss of her best friend and owner who recently passed away from a heart attack.
Sadie had been the man’s loyal companion since he adopted her as an 8-week-old puppy.
The man’s wife, Julie Beaulieu, says that the senior dog had become depressed following the death of her husband. For the ten days following Mr. Beaulieu’s death, Sadie lost ten pounds because she refused to eat.
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“She was so distraught and lost. Around 2:30 or three o’clock she’d listen for his truck, she’d go stand at the window and look. She was waiting for him to come home,” she told Global News.
So when Sadie and Julie went to her husband’s memorial service, she invited the dog to say goodbye.
“She hadn’t eaten since he passed, so I thought by letting her see inside the coffin and seeing him there, maybe it was going to give her some closure as it did for me,” she said.
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“I let her stand up and look and she had almost a look of shock on her face. She stood there… and was quite puzzled by it and then she just seemed to relax and just stood there with me.”
The director of the funeral home snapped a photo of the peaceful moment, which Julie now uses as a source of comfort and affection.
As for Sadie, Julie says that the dog went home after the service and ate two full meals – and she has gone back to enjoying her normal routine ever since.
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While some youngsters might be outside playing with other kids their age, this 7-year-old boy is ‘going viral’ for his unique friendship with a neighbor.
Young Caleb from Jackson, Tennessee is best friends with an elderly woman who has been fighting breast and lung cancer for the last two years.
The woman’s granddaughter, Darien Middleton, says that, while Caleb has always walked over to see her grandmother in the past, he now visits the woman 5 to 7 times every day after she became sick.
The granddaughter told KTVU’s Frank Somerville, “She refuses to move in with me because she loves her independence and her home.”
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She was so touched by the boy’s devoted friendship, she snapped a photo of the two multi-generational besties sitting on the porch in the sunlight – and the picture has been shared thousands of times.
She also adds that while the rest of the community has made an effort to watch over the senior, Caleb has forged the most significant bond with her ailing grandmother.
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“They are best friends. Caleb is a stand-out kid who has been handed a difficult situation and he has helped my grandmother through hers.”
“She lights up when she talks about it!” she added. “[And] our families have become so close!”
Remember To Share The Sweet Story With Your Friends – Photo by Darien Middleton
Quote of the Day: “There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.” – Freya Stark
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It’s been five years since Sarah-Raspberry’s mother committed suicide while in jail—and, while the young woman has mostly healed from the tragedy, she finally found the last bit of closure that she needed when a strange twist of synchronicity brought back one of her mother’s old possessions with a hidden message.
Now 19 years old, Ms. Farmer says that her mother, Christine Sexton, had taken her own life in February 2013 when her addiction to crystal meth led her down a destructive spiral.
“She was a very loving mother,” Farmer told The Dallas News. “A lot of people didn’t see that toward the end.”
Before her suicide, Sexton had already been in and out of prison several times. During her first stint behind bars, she specifically made an effort to reach out to her daughter in a special way.
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“She was there for 9 months and after she got out, she gave me a bag of books to read,” says Farmer. “Books that might help me get why she was there—or things she thought I would love.
“She would read them and highlight specific passages in pink highlighter. Things she wanted to say to me, but didn’t know how.”
After her mom’s death, Farmer committed to reading every single book – except for one that had flecks of blue paint on the cover and a chewed-up corner.
It was her mother’s copy of a book called House of Leaves, a complex and unconventional horror story written by Mark Danielewski that is resplendent with weird text formatting and intricately creepy plot lines.
In 2014, Farmer gave up on reading the book and sold it to a book store near her home in Fort Worth, Texas. She thought that would be the end of it…
Why remember a wedding with your former lover when you can giggle at the family cat instead?
A kind sister trying to be helpful edited some recent family photos as a means of cheering up her newly-single sibling.
27-year-old Chloe Forsberg of Southampton, England had been in a committed four-year relationship with her boyfriend until she recently broke things off. Unfortunately, her ex was featured prominently in a lot of family photos, particularly some wedding shots.
“My cousin got married and my boyfriend was in all the official pictures,” Forsberg told TODAY. “When we broke up six months (after the wedding), my sister thought it’d be fun to replace him with a picture of my cat.”
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Emily uploaded all the photos into Microsoft Paint and replaced Chloe’s ex with images of Woof.
“I felt a bit bad to have the pictures ruined with photos of him,” says Chloe. “But my sister made me feel a bit better about it.”
The amusing re-dos were so purrrrfectly done, BBC 1 Radio host Greg James retweeted the photos to his 1.6 million followers.
Social media users were tickled by the DIY photo prank, including Chloe’s ex, who was delighted by the effort.
“We spoke about it and we had a laugh,” Forsberg said. “Some people thought it was a bit of a cruel thing, but he found it funny!”
My sister kindly replaced my ex with the cat pic.twitter.com/PHUHGJAhaA
— Chloe Forsberg (@chloeoohyea) May 4, 2018
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One woman’s compulsion to find fun-loving peers has led to over 100,000 blossoming friendships around the world – and it is already leading to thousands more.
It was a Friday night in 2014 when the woman in question, Elva Carri, wanted to take advantage of the weekend and go out dancing.
But according to her business partner and friend, Aine Mulloy, Carri had to use more unconventional methods of finding platonic dance partners.
Mulloy told Good News Network: “Unfortunately, all her friends and family were either busy or tired, and she didn’t want to go out alone. So she turned to Tinder, which she had been using for dating purposes.
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“She changed her gender settings on the app, so she would appear as a man, and thus would show up to other women on the app.”
Carri then changed her feature photo to a bright pink graphic that explained her predicament to the female users who would see her profile.
Former Student Donates Travel Vouchers For Entire Lindley Elementary Staff https://t.co/uerOzmfxEM pic.twitter.com/UZ7dc0PXYZ
— WFMY News 2 (@WFMY) May 15, 2018
You never know when you are making a difference, inspiring someone to be a better person – moreover, you may be surprised about how they come back to repay you in later years.
The staff at Lindley Elementary School in Greensboro, North Carolina experienced this repayment with gratitude when a former student gifted every employee a well-deserved vacation destination with their family.
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The anonymous student, who became an adult and launched their own travel agency, donated dozens of travel vouchers that can be redeemed for 7-days of lodging anywhere in the continental US.
The gift is worth roughly $96,000.
When WFMY reported the story, the student’s identity was not revealed, but Lindley Elementary principal Tracy Roof says that surprising the staff with the vouchers was a moment that she “will never, ever forget.”
(WATCH the principal talk about the moment below)
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It’s rare to hear about someone who is willing to give thousands of dollars to a total stranger – but that is essentially what Guido Filippone insists on doing for a fellow American hero he just met.
Filippone, a US Marine who served between 2004 and 2008, was attending an appointment at a Veterans Administration Hospital near his home in Pflugerville, Texas when he saw an elderly man walking across the hot parking lot all by himself.
“I immediately approached him, shook his hand and thanked him for service and asked if anyone was coming to pick him up or if he had a ride,” says Filippone.
When the veteran said that he was parked on the other side of the lot – and there was no one around with a golf cart to escort him across – he was content to just use his walker.
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“Now, the heat here in Texas is enough to make anyone feel it and today was no different,” says the Marine. “I didn’t feel concerned because we know how tough our WW2 veterans are, but you never know. So, I asked if I could at least walk with him towards his car… and so we did.”
As they walked, the senior said he was a WWII veteran named Mike Gazella who had been stationed in Germany when the war ended.
Gazella then went on to say that he was at the VA because he had $4,000 worth of medical bills that needed to be paid for recent operations.
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“Medicare covered most of it, but the remnants was up to the VA, and we all know how long that takes,” says Filippone. “As time went on, his medical bills keep coming and he’s trying to work through the red tape.”
“If I had a checkbook, I would have given the money to him right there. I wouldn’t want a World War II vet to move on to the next phase of life in debt,” Filippone told Fox News.
While he did offer to help the veteran while they were in the parking lot, Gazella humbly declined. Filippone, on the other hand, was determined to help, anyway.
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He created a GoFundMe page with the intention of raising at least $4,000 in seven days – and he donated the first $1,000. Within 48 hours of creating the page, he has already raised over $13,000.
Filippone says that he is now working on tracking down Gazella so he can hand him the check.
“I could have easily just walked away and moved on. It’s nice to give back when you can,” Filippone told Fox. “I always say we already have the Greatest Generation—we should be the better generation. Never miss a chance to thank a veteran.”
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If anyone deserves to be given the royal treatment, it’s this sweet 12-year-old.
Amelia Thompson was one of the young spectators at the Ariana Grande concert bombing in Manchester, England last year. After the incident, she started raising money for bombing victims and sought healing through sessions with a therapy horse.
It’s for these reasons that her loving mother secretly nominated Amelia as a potential guest to the Royal Wedding between Meghan Markle and Prince Harry at Windsor Castle.
But when she finally got an email saying that Amelia had been invited to the event, neither of them could believe their eyes.
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“I started reading it and thought it was fake,” Amelia told CBC. “I was just saying to my mom, ‘“This isn’t real. This can’t be real.’”
Amelisa says that even though she would love to bring her mother as a plus one, she wants to bring Sharon Goodman – a woman who lost her 15-year-old granddaughter in the attack.
Overwhelmed by the exquisite honor, Amelia is now excitedly spending her days thinking about what to wear for the wedding – which is just another thing to help her heal from the past.
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Not only that, but Amelia says that she has been especially inspired by Prince Harry’s noble example of coping with grief since he lost his mother, Princess Diana, in a car crash when he was young.
“He was open about his mum, which is why it kind of made me feel a bit more open about my feelings and how I might feel in life after the bombing.”
(WATCH the sweet video below)
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One week before her high school graduation, Cynthia Pettway was hospitalized and left unable to walk – but that didn’t keep her from “walking” across the stage for the ceremony.
Pettway virtually graduated alongside her classmates at Leflore High School this week by rolling an iPad across the stage. With a two-way video stream displayed on the screen, she was able to remotely control the robot from the hospital.
The gadget was even dressed in a little cap and gown.
“I’m my grandma’s first grandbaby, her first one to … walk that stage,” Pettway told WKRG. “So I had to walk that stage—and I rolled across that stage.”
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The initiative was thanks to a collaboration between Stephanie Maddox of the Mobile County Public School System and the USA Children’s and Women’s Hospital in Mobile, Alabama. But when Maddox first suggested the idea to Pettway, the teen was hesitant.
“She has worked very hard to get here and was devastated, so we introduced this idea to her…” said Maddox. “Took us a little while to convince her that although she couldn’t be here physically, she could be here remotely… And after that she got on board and was very excited about it.”
The robot stand-in ended up working splendidly. As Pettway was watching the video stream from the hospital alongside 40 family members, she says she started to cry tears of joy. Not only that, but the auditorium erupted in a wave of applause and cheering.
(WATCH the video below – our international viewers can watch it at CBS’s website)
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Microsoft has just announced that they will be committing $25 million to the development of technology that can make life easier for the disabled.
The tech company announced their “AI For Accessibility” initiative during their annual developer conference in Seattle on Monday.
“By innovating for people with disabilities, we are innovating for us all,” said Microsoft President Brad Smith about the program. “By ensuring that technology fulfills its promise to address the broadest societal needs, we can empower everyone — not just individuals with disabilities — to achieve more.”
Over the course of the next five years, the finances will be invested in inclusively accessible products that are designed by Microsoft and their partnering companies. The money will also be doled out in the form of seed grants to innovators, universities, and designers who are developing promising components that align with the project’s goals.
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The initiative takes special interest in specifically harnessing AI technology to help the disabled, similarly to how it is utilized in real-time text-to-speech programs and predictive-text capabilities.
“AI can be a game changer for people with disabilities,” said Smith. “By making AI solutions more widely available, we believe technology can have a broad impact on this important community.”
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Can you imagine the horror of taking your pet on vacation only to end up losing it?
That’s what happen to me—on my honeymoon—when microchipping was not yet available. I had only my powers of ingenuity and tenacity to help locate the missing cat—or so I thought…
My husband and I put our two Persian cats, Channel and Camalot, into the rented camper and headed out on our honeymoon. We took the hour and a half ferry trip from Vancouver Island, Canada, then drove six hours to Lake Chelan, Washington.
As we set up camp, we put the cats into their harnesses and tied their leashes to the picnic table – but the next time we turned around, Camalot was nowhere to be seen. He had somehow wiggled free of his harness, which now lay empty and lifeless on the ground. This shy, gentle cat had been raised in a cage by a breeder; he was not prepared to fend for himself in the wild.
We spent our entire honeymoon walking around the town calling, “Liver, liver, liver,” because it was Camalot’s favorite treat and he always came when we called “liver.”
But not this time.
We wandered the streets day and night going from the radio station, to the newspaper office, to local schools, searching and telling people about the missing kitty. Eventually, everyone in town knew of our missing cat.
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Three days after he “evaporated,” we had done everything humanly possible to find him. Our “vacation” had run out and it was time to return home to our jobs.
Exhausted on the darkened streets at 4 a.m., knowing that it was our last chance to find Camalot, it was obvious that locating him was out of our hands. So, I passed my heart into the hands of fate and said, “Dear God, If you are really out there, if you really exist, please show me where my cat is.”
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A daily dose of baking soda may help reduce the destructive inflammation of autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, scientists say.
They have some of the first evidence of how the cheap, over-the-counter antacid can encourage our spleen to promote an anti-inflammatory environment that could be therapeutic in the face of inflammatory disease, Medical College of Georgia scientists report in the Journal of Immunology.
They have shown that when rats or healthy people drink a solution of baking soda, or sodium bicarbonate, it becomes a trigger for the stomach to make more acid that can digest the next meal.
It also gets little-studied mesothelial cells sitting on the spleen to tell the fist-sized organ that there’s no need to mount a protective immune response.
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Dr. Paul O’Connor, who is a renal physiologist and the study’s corresponding author, says that it’s sort of reassuring our organs that “it’s most likely a hamburger, not a bacterial infection.”
The mesothelial cells that line body cavities, like the one that contains our digestive tract, cover the exterior of our organs to quite literally keep them from rubbing together. About a decade ago, it was found that these cells also provide another level of protection; they have little fingers, called microvilli, that sense the environment, and warn the organs they cover that there is an invader and an immune response is needed.
Drinking baking soda, the MCG scientists think, tells the spleen – which is part of the immune system – to go easy on the immune response.
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“Certainly drinking bicarbonate affects the spleen and we think it’s through the mesothelial cells,” O’Connor says.
The dosage people take daily for alkalinizing their body’s pH, or for use as an antacid, is one-half to 1 teaspoon of baking soda completely dissolved in at least 4 ounces of water.
The conversation, which occurs with the help of the chemical messenger acetylcholine, appears to promote a landscape that shifts against inflammation, they report.
In the spleen, as well as the blood and kidneys, they found after drinking water with baking soda for two weeks, the population of immune cells called macrophages, shifted from primarily those that promote inflammation, called M1, to those that reduce it, called M2. Macrophages, perhaps best known for their ability to consume garbage in the body like debris from injured or dead cells, are early arrivers to a call for an immune response.
In the case of the lab animals, the problems were hypertension and chronic kidney disease, problems which got O’Connor’s lab thinking about baking soda.
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One of the many functions of the kidneys is balancing important compounds like acid, potassium and sodium. With kidney disease, there is impaired kidney function and one of the resulting problems can be that the blood becomes too acidic, O’Connor says. Significant consequences can include increased risk of cardiovascular disease and osteoporosis.
“It sets the whole system up to fail basically,” O’Connor says. Clinical trials have shown that a daily dose of baking soda can not only reduce acidity, but actually slow progression of the kidney disease, and it’s now a therapy offered to patients.
“[So] we started thinking, how does baking soda slow progression of kidney disease?” O’Connor says.
That’s when the anti-inflammatory impact began to unfold as they saw reduced numbers of M1s and increased M2s in their kidney disease model after consuming the common compound.
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When they looked at a rat model without actual kidney damage, they saw the same response. So the basic scientists worked with the investigators at MCG’s Georgia Prevention Institute to bring in healthy medical students who drank baking soda in a bottle of water and also had a similar response.
“The shift from inflammatory to an anti-inflammatory profile is happening everywhere,” O’Connor says. “We saw it in the kidneys, we saw it in the spleen, now we see it in the peripheral blood.”
The shifting landscape, he says, is likely due to increased conversion of some of the pro-inflammatory cells to anti-inflammatory ones coupled with actual production of more anti-inflammatory macrophages. The scientists also saw a shift in other immune cell types, like more regulatory T cells, which generally drive down the immune response and help keep the immune system from attacking our own tissues. That anti-inflammatory shift was sustained for at least four hours in humans and three days in rats.
O’Connor hopes drinking baking soda can one day produce similar results for people with autoimmune disease.
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“You are not really turning anything off or on, you are just pushing it toward one side by giving an anti-inflammatory stimulus,” he says, in this case, away from harmful inflammation. “It’s potentially a really safe way to treat inflammatory disease.”
The spleen also got bigger with consuming baking soda, the scientists think because of the anti-inflammatory stimulus it produces. Infection also can increase spleen size and physicians often palpate the spleen when concerned about a big infection.
Other cells besides neurons are known to use the chemical communicator acetylcholine. Baking soda also interact with acidic ingredients like buttermilk and cocoa in cakes and other baked goods to help the batter expand and, along with heat from the oven, to rise. It can also help raise the pH in pools, is found in antacids and can help clean your teeth and tub.
(Source: Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University)
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In an incredible story of perseverance, a puppy that was lost in the desert was finally reunited with her owner after she was missing for 65 days.
Back in June 2013, Ily the 1-year-old dog and her owner Rose Sharman were in the car driving down the Arizona highway when they suddenly crashed and were sent flying through the windshield.
Sharman was injured in the accident, but Ily immediately panicked and ran off into the wilderness.
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As Sharman recovered in a wheelchair, a team of volunteers spent the next two months searching for the dog. For weeks, there wasn’t any sign of Ily – until August when there was a sighting of two dogs wandering through the desert about 3 miles north of the crash.
The volunteers baited some cages with pieces of chicken and set up a baby monitor to listen for a sound. Finally, 65 days after she went missing, the cages successfully caught Ily.
And her reunion with Sharman was an emotional one.
(WATCH the emotional video below)
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