Dylan’s parents were about to unplug their toddler from life support – but then they all witnessed what doctors called an Easter miracle. Hear the incredible tale told by The Good News Guru (from the April 6, 2018 Ellen K. Morning Show on KOST radio).
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The United Kingdom has just announced that they are introducing one of the toughest bans on ivory sales in the world.
The only ivory products that will be excluded from the ban include musical instruments that were made before 1975 and contain less than 20% ivory; antiques that are over 100 years old and have been assessed by a specialist; items that contain less than 10% ivory that were made prior to 1947; and museum-accredited pieces.
Anyone found in violation of the ban could face up to five years in prison or an “unlimited fine”.
According to the government’s website, the ban was overwhelmingly favored by over 88% of respondents to their survey.
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UK Environment Secretary Michael Gove said in a statement: “Ivory should never be seen as a commodity for financial gain or a status symbol, so we will introduce one of the world’s toughest bans on ivory sales to protect elephants for future generations.
“The ban on ivory sales we will bring into law will reaffirm the UK’s global leadership on this critical issue, demonstrating our belief that the abhorrent ivory trade should become a thing of the past.”
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The CEO of Tusk Trust, Charlie Mayhew, said: “We are delighted that the Government has listened to our concerns and given the overwhelming public response to their consultation is now moving decisively to introduce tough legislation to ban the trade in ivory in the UK.
“The narrowly defined exemptions are pragmatic. The ban will ensure there is no value for modern day ivory and the tusks of recently poached elephants cannot enter the UK market. We welcome the fact that Ministers are sending such a clear message to the world that the illegal wildlife trade will not be tolerated and every effort will be made to halt the shocking decline in Africa’s elephant population in recent years.”
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It has been called one of the “top ten recoveries of all time”—and the actual timing of this resurrection involving a two-year-old boy became a miracle to those who witnessed it.
Dylan Askin was first rushed to the hospital from his home in Shelton Lock, England at Christmas in 2015. Not only had one of his lungs entirely collapsed, but 80% of the surface area was covered in cysts.
The toddler was diagnosed with pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis, an extremely rare form of lung cancer that affects only one-in-ten-million people.
As the boy continued to fight the disease, he developed bacterial pneumonia and fell into a coma.
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Three months later, Dylan’s parents became resigned to their son’s passing when doctors at Queens Medical Hospital told them his condition was not looking good at all. Heartbroken, they agreed to take him off life-support systems on the holy day known to Christians as Good Friday.
“They told us things were looking bleak and that we weren’t going to get him back,” Dylan’s mother Kerry told the Daily Mail. “All the settings on all the machines were at their highest and he was still struggling. We had him christened, all his family came from all over to say goodbye, including his big brother.”
Just as Dylan was about to be let go, however, his heart rate returned to normal and his parents immediately told the doctors to wait. Their resilient youngster was not giving up yet.
During the next two days, the boy had recovered so much that he was sent home on Easter Sunday.
Now, at four years old, Dylan’s family announced this week that he had beaten the cancer entirely and made a full recovery in what his parents and doctors called, “an Easter miracle”.
“I am not massively religious, but I did think it was a miracle,” says Kerry. “When we told our eldest son, he said ‘he’s like Jesus’—rising from the dead.”
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The city of Portland, Oregon has unveiled a multi-faceted campaign to end traffic fatalities in the municipality – and a large chunk of the program’s funding is coming from cannabis tax revenue.
For the last few years, city residents who are age 21 or older can purchase recreational marijuana (with some limitations). $300,000 in cannabis taxes will be used to fund “Struck” – a public safety initiative dedicated to educating the public on the importance of safe driving.
The campaign is the largest public safety initiative ever launched by the Portland Bureau of Transportation.
“If we are going to reduce fatalities, we need to change how people think when they get behind the wheel,” said City Commissioner Dan Saltzman, who oversees PBOT. “It used to be socially acceptable to drive without a seat belt or drive when people were not quite sober. But with new laws and education campaigns, we changed people’s behavior.”
In addition to the public education funding, the campaign is also initiating renovations to several dozen city streets that have the highest rates of accidents and collisions.
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A 13-year-old boy found himself in deep trouble on Sunday night, but the city of Los Angeles had his back.
Jesse Hernandez had been playing with some other children in an abandoned factory when he fell through a piece of wood and dropped 25-feet into the city sewage system. He then wandered through the maze of pipes to find a way out.
Over 100 Los Angeles firefighters and police officials spent the next 12 hours searching in the drainage system with special cameras to try and find the youngster.
Though the boy was fearful for his own safety, he crawled on this knees through almost an entire mile of piping until he finally saw light coming through a manhole cover and waited to be rescued.
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On Monday morning, LA firefighters finally found the youngster, hauled him to safety, rushed him to the hospital for treatment, and reunited him with his family.
The Los Angeles Fire Department released a statement on the rescue, saying: “A tremendous team effort over the past 12 hours resulted in the best outcome, Jesse Hernandez was found alive this morning. We would like to thank the entire Hernandez family for their patience and optimism.
“From start to finish, this was an unprecedented team effort and the LAFD would like to recognize the excellent teamwork among all agencies involved.”
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This adventurous feline was spared one of its 9 lives thanks to the ingenuity of two determined Chinese students.
In a video that was filmed in Liangshan Yi Prefecture in Sichuan Province, two boys can be seen worrying over a cat that got itself trapped on the top of a building canopy.
As the tiny cat can be heard meowing in distress, one of the boys has the bright idea to turn his umbrella upside down and hold it up to the canopy. A second student steps in to help, by holding up the other side of the rescue net.
The two students patiently wait for the cat to accept their offer of assistance. Finally, the cat inches closer to the edge of the canopy, eyes the umbrella ruefully, and eventually finds the courage to jump into its depths.
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Once the boys feel the weight of the cat in the umbrella, they gently lower it to the ground and set the feline free.
The video, which was published by Newsflare earlier this week, has already been viewed thousands of times.
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In a historic ruling, Colombia’s top court has sided with a group of young adults and children who are suing the government for failing to properly protect the Amazon rainforest.
Thanks to the 3-4 ruling, the country’s president and local municipalities must create legislation that will put a stop to deforestation within the next five months.
The court case was facilitated with the help of Dejusticia, a Bogota-based human rights organization. The youth and the nonprofit were able to convince the South American Supreme Court that the Amazon rainforest was essential to their constitutional rights to life, health, food, water, and a safe environment.
Additionally, the youngsters argued that since deforestation is the country’s largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, the government’s failure to protect the Amazon was directly violating the rights of future generations as well.
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The Court sided with the plaintiffs and even emphasized that the Colombian government had been avoiding the issue for long enough.
“It is clear, despite numerous international commitments, regulations, and jurisprudence on the matter, that the Colombian State has not efficiently tackled the problem of deforestation in the Amazon,” the Court said, according to Dejusticia.
Camila Bustos, a researcher with Dejusticia, said: “We were thrilled with the result. The ruling was beautifully written, and it’s refreshing and novel on the importance of nature, not only for humans but also its intrinsic value. And it recognizes the rights of the future generations.”
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It has been two years since Isabella Pieri’s mom passed away from a rare illness – but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t have a community to step in and carry on some of the more female tasks.
Isabella’s father has been doing his best to fulfill the responsibilities of both a mother and a father, but there were certain things he could not figure out, such has helping the 11-year-old with her hair.
At one point, the youngster’s locks got so tangled that her dad had to give her a hair cut.
Once Isabella’s hair had grown out, she became resigned to simply wearing her hair in a no-fuss ponytail – but then she saw her school bus driver, Tracy Dean, braiding another student’s hair.
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Isabella got the courage to ask the bus driver if she could braid her hair as well; and Dean has been styling her hair every morning since.
“You can’t be shy; you’ve got to talk to them,” Dean told KSL. “You treat them like your own kids, you know.”
Their morning hair appointments do more than just give Isabella stylish hairdos for the school day, too – they gives her confidence, validation, and a daily dose of tender love from a motherly woman.
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“It makes me feel like she’s a mom pretty much to me,” Isabella told KSL. “And it makes me excited for the next day…”
The Salt Lake City, Utah bus driver says she has had a special connection with the kids since she was diagnosed with breast cancer seven years ago.
“I found out I had breast cancer, and that’s one of the things that went through my head — who is going to take care of my little ones? Not that my husband couldn’t do it, but you know, that’s what moms do. They do their kids’ hair,” Dean told the station.
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A North Carolina courtroom was filled with hugs and tears of happiness after the judge offered up a historic plea deal in a show of “restorative justice”.
One year ago, James Scott Berish accidentally fired a gun through the floor of his apartment, striking 10-year-old Deisy Medina in her sleep. When Berish was told that the bullet had hit a child, he immediately turned himself over to the police before he was even a suspect in the case.
Berish, who is the father of a 2-year-old girl, was charged with assault with a deadly weapon and possession of a stolen firearm.
While most people might think that the story might end with Berish being thrown in jail, he and the Medina family embarked on a year-long journey of recovery, forgiveness, counseling, and communication through a process called restorative justice.
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Restorative justice is a series of steps used to encourage healing between both affected parties of a court case, rather than simply sentencing and punishment. Though it has been employed in Durham courtrooms before, it has never been used for violent felony.
According to WRAL, Deisy and James met for the first time earlier this week – and the encounter was a positive one.
“There was a really beautiful long embrace between James and Deisy. That let everybody know that healing has come a long way,” said Jon Powell, director of Campbell Law School’s Restorative Justice Clinic, during the court meeting. “If crime creates harm, justice ought to create healing and that’s what we witnessed in this case.”
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Berish pled guilty to all charges and read an apology letter to the courtroom about his love for Deisy and her family. The Medinas responded by openly expressing their affection and forgiveness towards Berish.
Then, instead of being put behind bars, Berish’s prison sentence was suspended and he was placed under 2-year of supervised probation. Not only that, but the young father agreed to never own a weapon, pay the Medina family $1,380 in restitution, and speak at least two gun-safety events.
“This is why I went to law school, this moment,” assistant district attorney Kendra Montgomery-Blinn told WRAL. “These are the things that we want to do. The criminal justice system is changing and I am so proud to be a part of it.”
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Thanks to a Facebook video that was shared across the internet back in December, a grocery store worker will finally have the chance to pursue his dreams of becoming a professional musician.
Gilly Assuncao was asked to do a mic check for Russo’s grocery store in Boston, Massachusetts four months ago.
Assuncao, who used to work as a professional singer in his homeland of Brazil, sang a classic Christmas tune for the soundcheck – and his beautiful voice stunned everyone in the store.
The grocery store’s Facebook page uploaded a video of the song to social media where it has been viewed over 200,000 times.
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“Gilly’s incredible performance during shopping today!” the store wrote in the caption. “Our employee’s talent brought tears to our eyes!”
Assuncao was interviewed by numerous news outlets about how he had always dreamed of being a professional musician in America, but he started working at Russo’s so he could go to school and study computers instead.
As Assuncao continued to make headlines, his video caught the eye of the prestigious Berklee College of Music. The school reached out to the grocery store worker and asked him to apply.
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Earlier this week, Assuncao got his acceptance letter.
“My heart stopped, I didn’t know what to do,” he told WCVB about receiving the letter. “And then the first word was ‘congratulations,’ and I was so happy.”
Though Berklee’s four-year degree comes with a hefty price tag, Assuncao is determined to make it work. In addition to applying for grants and scholarships, his friend Gabriel Martin created a GoFundMe page to help cover the costs of tuition.
“I feel that Gilly has been given a gift from God; his voice,” says Martin. “Something tells me that we will be hearing a lot from him. He was blessed with this talent to share with the rest of the world.”
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Instead of emptying their coffers on commercial advertising, this Texas church decided to spend their money on something much more meaningful.
On Easter Sunday, a pastor at the Covenant Church of Carrollton, Texas announced that they had bought out and forgiven $100,000 worth of medical debt for local families.
The church made the transaction through RIP Medical Debt – an American nonprofit that buys up and abolishes medical debt. Since medical debt can be bought by collection agencies for a fraction of what they’re worth, $100,000 translates to over $10 million in medical debt that has now been lifted off the shoulders of struggling Texas families.
4,229 families and veterans who have been forgiven of the medical debt will be receiving letters in the mail this week notifying them of the donation.
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“I have grandparents who are veterans, too,” one of the congregants told NBC. “So just thinking about the hardship that would cause for someone. It wasn’t their choice. They didn’t go into debt because they ran up the credit card. It’s because something that happened to them. So I just love that we were able to help people where it wasn’t their choice. But we got to choose to help them. I just love that.”
Pastor Stephen Hayes was especially pleased to make the announcement because of his own struggles with medical debt in the past. As a 17-year-old, Hayes had been struck by a car, putting him in the ICU for 12 days. His parents were then swamped with medical bills which they were eventually able to pay off with the help of their own church congregation.
“If you can imagine what those people this week will be feeling when they receive the letter that you sent them saying their debt is paid,” Hayes preached to the congregation. “I pray 100-fold that that [is how] you would feel in reading the letter He wrote to you in the book of John 19:30. ‘Hey, your debt of sin is paid. You are covered.’”
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It has been 18 years since Nick Burchill was banned from the Empress Hotel. As a means of begging for forgiveness, Burchill wrote to the establishment and recounted the exact events that led to his lifetime ban – and it is a hilarious tale.
Back in 2001, Burchill was a proud member of the Canadian Naval Reserve. He had also become the employee of a respectable company that invited him to a customer conference at the hotel in Victoria, British Columbia.
Upon mentioning to his Navy buddies that he would be traveling west, they asked him if he could bring them some “Brother’s Pepperoni” from Halifax, which is considered to be a local delicacy.
Burchill wrote: “Because this was the Navy we were talking about, I brought enough for a ship. In a hurry, I had completely filled a suitcase with pepperoni for my friends. Some of it was wrapped in plastic, some in brown paper. I took whatever Brothers would sell me.
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Unfortunately, the airline misplaced the suitcase and it was not returned to Burchill until the next day at the hotel.
“I knew that the pepperoni would still be ‘good’. It had only been at room temperature for a short time. It would, however, be quite some time before I could turn it over to my friends,” says Burchill. “Just to be safe, I decided that I should keep it cool.
“My room was a nice, big, front-facing room on the fourth floor. It was well appointed, but it did not have a refrigerator. It was April, the air was chilly. An easy way to keep all of this food cool would be just to keep it next to an open window. I lifted one of the sashes and spread the packages of pepperoni out on the table and window sill. Then, I went for a walk… for about 4 or 5 hours.”
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By the time Burchill returned to his room, he walked in on a gruesome scene: over 40 seagulls had flown in through the window and started eating the pepperoni.
“In case you were wondering, Brothers’ Pepperoni does NASTY things to a seagull’s digestive system,” says Burchill. “As you would expect, the room was covered in seagull crap. What I did not realize until then was that seagulls also drool. Especially when they eat pepperoni.
“I’m sure you have an image in your head. Now remember that I have just walked into the room and startled all of these birds. They immediately started flying around and crashing into things as they desperately tried to leave the room through the small opening by which they had entered.
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“Less composed seagulls are attempting to leave through the other CLOSED windows. The result was a tornado of seagull excrement, feathers, pepperoni chunks and fairly large birds whipping around the room. The lamps were falling. The curtains were trashed. The coffee tray was just disgusting.
“I waded through the birds and opened the remaining windows. Most of the gulls left immediately. One tried to re-enter the room to grab another piece of pepperoni and in my agitated state, I took off one of my shoes and threw it at him.
“Both the gull and the shoe went out the window.”
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As Burchill attempted to assess the damage, he noticed that there was one hulking seagull that was still in the room – and it refused to leave.
The Navy man chased the bird around the room to no avail. He finally used a towel to trap the bird and throw it out the window.
“I had forgotten that seagulls cannot fly when they are wrapped in a towel,” says Burchill. “This is all happening fairly quickly and this is mid-afternoon. The Empress hosts a very famous and very popular ‘High Tea’. I suspect this is where the large group of tourists was heading when they were struck by first my shoe, then a bound-up seagull (the seagull was unharmed, by the way).”
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With the room in shambles, Burchill remembered that he was still invited to attend a fancy dinner with his new company at any minute. He then retrieved his shoe from a stretch of mud in the garden and brought it back to his destroyed room.
“I went into the washroom and rinsed the mud off of my shoe. It cleaned-up nicely, but now I had one wet, dark shoe, and one dry, light colored shoe.
“In retrospect, I should have just wet the dry shoe. Instead, I chose to dry the wet shoe using the little hairdryer. It was actually doing quite well. I had the hairdryer jammed in there and the shoe was drying quite nicely. Then, the phone rang.”
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As Burchill went to go answer the phone, the power suddenly turned off. He returned to the bathroom to find that the hairdryer had vibrated free of the shoe and fallen into the wet sink.
“I don’t know how much of the hotel’s power I knocked-out, but at that point I decided I needed help,” says Burchill. “I called the front desk and asked for someone to come help me clean-up a mess. I can still remember the look on the lady’s face when she opened the door. I had absolutely no idea what to tell her, so I just said ‘I’m sorry’ and I went to dinner. When I came back, my things had been moved to a much smaller room.”
Burchill’s company later received a letter that he had been given a lifetime ban from the Empress Hotel.
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In his open letter to the hotel, Burchill writes: “I have matured and I admit responsibility for my actions. I come to you, hat-in-hand to apologize for the damage I had indirectly come to cause and to ask you to reconsider my lifetime ban from the property.
“I hope that you will see fit to either grant me a pardon, or consider my 18 year away from The Empress as ‘time served’.”
Burchill published a copy of the letter on Facebook last week. The next day, he wrote an update for the post saying: “After reviewing my application for a pardon with the Empress staff; Ryan, the manager has notified me verbally that I will once again be welcome as a guest. I bet it was the pound of Brothers Pepperoni that I gave them as a peace offering that did the trick.”
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Tanner Waters has desperately been looking for a date to take to his senior prom – and while he may not have found one yet, he will soon, thanks to his affectionate coworkers.
The teen, who is a student at Winter Springs High School in Winter Springs, Florida, works part-time at the local Chick-Fil-A. When he realized that he may be going to prom by himself, he approached his manager Billy McClarnon about how he couldn’t find a date.
Though McClarnon rejected Tanner’s invitation to the high school event, he did offer to advertise the date on the restaurant’s marquee.
“I’m like ‘No, I’m not going to prom with you,’” McClarnon told WKMG. “But if you need some help, I’ll put it on the reader board for you.”
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The 17-year-old agreed, saying: “That would be awesome. That would help me out a lot. It takes all the work out of finding a date.
“I think it’s funny. You don’t usually see your name on something like that.”
So if you know any fun young teens in the Winter Springs area, send them to Chick-Fil-A for a date with a good-natured student.
“I’m a great person,” Tanner exclaimed. “I have a great personality. You’re going to have a great time with me. You get free dinner — someone is buying us dinner — it’s going to be a great night!”
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A Sesame Street-themed amusement park is the first in the world to receive a certification for autism accommodation.
Sesame Place, which is based in Philadelphia, features quiet rooms and sensory guides so parents can plan their visits. Additionally, all the staff members have become certified in autism sensitivity training.
The accreditation was awarded in honor of Autism Awareness Month – and it is just in time for the park to reopen for its new season at the end of April.
Sesame Place received the accreditation through the International Board of Credentialing and Continuing Education Standards, an international organization that provides autism certification and training to businesses and service groups.
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This is not the first time that Sesame Street has made an effort to connect with autistic youth – just last year, the franchise introduced an autistic character named Julia. The character is part of Sesame Street’s online autism project, “See Amazing in All Children,” which features a free downloadable app with videos and stories to help kids understand autism.
Sesame Street also just received $100 million in funding for their educational program that targets young, disadvantaged Syrian refugee children.
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A high school student is being hailed for discovering an incredibly simple way to help save bees – and he is already contacting local farms about implementing his solution.
Derek Woo is a senior student at Greenwich High School in Connecticut. The 17-year-old became inspired to help honeybees when he heard a story on the radio about “colony collapse disorder” – a phenomenon that happens when worker bees leave the hive, leaving the queen and her young to fend for themselves.
While this event can be caused by infections and parasites, the most consistent trigger for the collapse is due to insecticides. If ingested, a bee can die from the poison.
A very common method of ingesting the water is when bees drink the water that collects at the end of leaves. The water – which travels up from the soil, through the stem, and onto the leaves – collects glucose on its way through the plant. Unfortunately, the water also absorbs insecticides. Not only that, but the insecticide becomes four times more concentrated once it collects on the leaves.
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When bees are drawn to the glucose in the water, they also end up ingesting the insecticide.
Derek’s simple solution? Mix four parts soil with one part charcoal, or “biochar”.
Biochar is an environmentally-friendly type of charcoal that is used by farmers to absorb harmful chemicals and help soil retain its moisture. When mixed with plant soil that has been sprayed with insecticides, the water that is collected on the leaves only contains a tiny fraction of poison, which makes it safer for bees to drink.
According to Eureka! Lab, Derek has already started contacting local farmers about adding biochar to their soil.
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When a 10-year-old boy was being bullied for adoring his glittery cat-themed lunchbox, his older cousin decided to take a stand.
David Pendragon of Charlotte, North Carolina recently posted a photo of himself on social media proudly carrying the cool lunchbox into his “conservative, corporate workplace”.
In the caption, he explains how his little cousin Ryker had been super excited to bring the same lunchbox into school – but because of the bright colors and the cat-themed pattern, some of the other kids started picking on the youngster.
“He even wanted to stop taking his lunch [to school] so he wouldn’t be teased about it any longer,” says David. “I have decided, however, to stand with my little cousin and show him that a man can love whatever he wants and not be afraid to express that love.
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“So I have ordered the same lunchbox for myself and proudly carried it to work today at my large, conservative, corporate workplace. I’ve told anyone who asked the story behind my lunchbox and to a person, they all stand with Ryker too.
“There’s no one way to be a man. Men can be colorful. Men can be expressive. Men can be emotional and silly and gleeful.
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“I love my new lunchbox and I hope Ryker and all the other boys out there can see that their passion and self-expression is never something to be ashamed of.”
Judging by the thousands of comments and shares of support that David’s post has generated since it was published earlier this week, it’s fair to say that the rest of the world stands with Ryker too.
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