At a packed pep rally at Mahanoy Area High School in Pennsylvania, senior Keny Cedanio Ramirez was named homecoming king. When he saw his friend and fellow nominee Axton Kuhla, who has Down syndrome, start to cry, he placed his crown and sash on Axton’s head. The video went viral.
D’Amber Davis chatted with cashier Katelyn Sparks almost every day at a Central Georgia gas station. When she learned Katelyn was 33 weeks pregnant and couldn’t care for the baby, she asked a life-changing question. Now she is adopting baby Nolan, and the two women call each other sisters.
Months ago, 16-year-old Taylor Fisher and her best friend left flowers and kind notes on cars at Bismarck’s hospitals and filmed it for TikTok. After Taylor died in an October crash, her family found the video and did it again in her memory.
A Hyderabad gym’s floor cleaner admired one member’s Lamborghini every morning. Entrepreneur Rakesh Kumar, who once earned just 800 rupees as a salesman and was ignored by supercar owners, handed him the keys. The video neared 10 million views.
On a lonely holiday in Chengdu, a blind massage worker told his ride-hailing driver he wore sunglasses because his eyes were ugly. The driver’s four-word reply went viral, and now he has promised free rides to the man’s hometown.
Saul Caballero of A&S Towing in Converse, Texas, keeps pulling over for stranded drivers and refusing their money, because nobody once stopped for his son. Then a San Antonio TV station called him to a breakdown that wasn’t real.
A fatal crash closed Idaho’s Highway 21 an hour before Erich Thalacker and Kyla Dickey’s wedding. Elk hunter Garrett Kerr and a stranger named Jessica got them 16 miles around it on an electric pit bike and an ATV.
Ethan Woodhead, 24, traveled alone from Guernsey to run the Chicago Marathon. His uncle Phil asked strangers on Facebook to give him an occasional cheer, and on race day people lined the course with his name on homemade signs.
While Christina Caron waited for popcorn at Urban Air in Bellingham, Massachusetts, a group of teenagers invited her 7-year-old son Tristan, who has autism, to play catch and hide-and-seek. Now the park wants to celebrate them.
A 21-year-old moviegoer in Maryville, Tennessee, noticed 85-year-old Mary Ellen Eron working hard after 45 years in theaters. One TikTok and a GoFundMe later, more than 7,500 strangers had given $146,317.