For some reason...these stories stand out.
Here's one from CNN this morning...
...for more than three decades, there was mostly silence about the December 29, 1972, crash of Eastern Airlines Flight 401 in the Everglades.
Investigators and reporters stopped calling. His airboat rusted in the yard. A rubber boot that had squished through swampwater and jet fuel deteriorated on the back porch, right where he took it off.
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"Had it not been for Bud, there would not have been a grandpa for the children, there would not have been a grandpa to share the good times in life with," said David Kaplan, now 71 and living in Delray Beach.
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[...]he strained to hear his wife's voice, but she never answered his cries. She had died, 20 days after they married. "I need to do it. I never was able to see my wife. I need to go back there," said Infantino, a 61-year-old Miami insurance agent. "I always said to myself, 'I don't know where to go.' I've always wanted some kind of recognition for the people who've lost their lives."
There are special people in your life - all the time - whether you know they are there or not.
Whenever they are within arms reach - you should reach out.
And squeeze them.
If - through some unfortunate circumstance - you find out too late who those special people are - try to find - and squeeze them - later.
Better yet - just squeeze the ones you think are special NOW.
...just in case....
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