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4 Feel Good Stories From This Week That You Can’t Not Read

Had a rough week or need a dose of the feel goods as you settle into your weekend? Then grab a tissue, or maybe a giant bread stick, to cry into as you go into an emotional carbo-load session because you’re about to be murdered by feels as we highlight 4 of this week’s feel good stories.

1. Matching ‘Dos

best friends Jax and Reddy

Five-year-old Jax from Kentucky needed a haircut and decided it would be an epic trick on his teacher if he cut his hair the same as his best friend, Reddy, who is also 5 years old. The thing is, Reddy is one of two black brothers who were adopted from the Kongo by a local white family. Jax is white.

After getting a matching haircut and going to preschool, their teacher happily played along, pretending to confuse the two.

This adorable and innocent act shows that racism is a thing that is learned and that friendship is more than skin-deep. Like Reddy says, “I’m Jax and Jax is me.” Yes you are, buddy. Yes you are.

2. My, What A Guy, Gaston

Josh Gad LeFou

Those who have seen the Disney cartoon Beauty and the Beast remember LeFou, the buff villain, Gaston’s, squat side-kick. Well, Disney decided to make LeFou its first openly-gay character in a movie.

Director Bill Condon has said, “LeFou is somebody who on one day wants to be Gaston and on another day wants to kiss Gaston,” Condon said. “Josh makes something really subtle and delicious out of it. And that’s what has its payoff at the end, which I don’t want to give away. But it is a nice, exclusively gay moment in a Disney movie.”

Some people are stunned by this move and are refusing to see the movie, because of course they are, but others are absolutely thrilled.

3. Arrested Development

Annie Granny

Ninety-nine-year-old granny Annie, who hails from the Netherlands, had a rather odd dying wish. Before kicking the bucket, Annie wanted to kick a particular experience off of her bucket-list. She wanted to be arrested.With some help from her niece, Annie was cuffed by the Dutch Police and placed inside a cell. Unlike most mugshots, the police took pictures of an absolutely beside herself Annie and posted them on their Facebook page.

4. My Heart Will Go On

Melody

A mother from Cleveland, Amber Trivaglio, got to hear the heart of her deceased 7-year-old-daughter, Melody, beat again.  But how is that possible? After Melody’s sudden death, Amber decided to give someone else her daughter’s heart of gold to keep another parent from knowing the pain of losing a child.

Five-year-old Peyton, who lives in Georgia, was the lucky recipient of Melody’s heart, and after a year of chatting online with Peyton’s mom, Ashlyn Richardson, the two finally arranged to meet.

While embracing Peyton, Amber was able to hear and feel her daughter’s heart transcend death to live on in another little girl. Amber said, “I think that Melody’s heart was strong beyond just the physicality, and that she’ll watch over and protect Peyton.”

Somebody pass me the tissues, stat.