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It’s Tuesday again, which can only mean one thing… another Positive DONUT hitting your inbox.
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I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend, and a very Happy Hanukkah to anyone celebrating.
Without further ado, let’s get into the good 😎.
– Kailyn
P.S. Did you have anything exciting happen this Thanksgiving, or a general accomplishment you want to share? Submit your wins here 🥰.
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⏰🚀 Ready, Set, Go: Today’s newsletter takes 3.83 minutes to read.
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✨ This Week's Mantra
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I am constantly finding reasons to be grateful and appreciative of my life. I have unlimited reasons to be happy.
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👏 The Sweet Spotlight
From Crisis to Clothing
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 Images: CNN
Ten-year-old Lalia Susini was on her porch swing being pushed by her grandpa last year when disaster struck.
"It started as a cute, All-American moment..." shared her mother, Stacey Susini with CNN. "The next thing you know there's blood everywhere and I thought, ‘I'm going to lose my daughter.’"
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In what can only be described as a freak accident, the bolt holding up the swing to the porch roof suddenly gave out, ricocheting the piece of metal into Laila’s skull and rendering her unconscious.
🙏 Crazy how fast it can all change: Laila had suffered a stroke when the projectile entered her brain, and while still alive, the medical team responding to the incident had to work quickly and intelligently to ensure her survival.
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"She was unable to move one side of her body with an open wound. Time was critical." shared her surgeon Dr. Danielpour. "The life of this beautiful child was in our hands and there was no room for error."
After two blood transfusions and an emergency five hour surgery to remove the bolt from her skull, Laila miraculously survived.
But when she awoke, Laila discovered the entire left side of her body was paralyzed. Over the span of just a few hours, the young actress and model’s entire life had changed forever.
🏥 From the hospital… "I'm working my hardest to get back to [everything I used to do]," Lalia said. "Some would think this is so bad my life is ruined, but you have to be positive."
Prior to her accident, Laila always dreamed of a life on the screen – but now the middle schooler is determined to help others.
💃🕺 To the runway… Laila recently designed and released a fashionable, adaptive clothing line with LATE Clothing for sick and injured kids. Her sweatshirts feature openings for medical devices such as catheter tubes, PIC lines, or casts, and with every purchase a donation is made to The Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles.
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📸 Pic of the Week
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Image: @mdmotivator |
📱 Zachery Dereniowski, or @mdmotivator on Instagram, is known for his amazing videos uplifting strangers around the country. He stands blindfolded outside popular stores with signs like the one above… and the conversations that follow may get the waterworks flowing.
Watch here.
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🤗🍩 DONUT Holes...
Here you’ll find other positive stories from this week, as well as some resources to help us all make the world just a little bit sweeter.
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🪖 Daddy’s home… After a year-long deployment, this girl-dad surprised his twins by walking in during story time at school. Watch their reaction here.
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🔍 Macklemore would be proud… When a 1994 high school football player couldn’t afford his custom letterman, he never thought he’d see the jacket again. Twenty-eight years later, his brother found it for $25 in a thrift shop.
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🐶 Pawsitively adorable… Check out this video of a 15-month old pup and his bff, the elderly neighbor.
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💸 Pay it forward… How perfect is it that this week’s edition falls on Giving Tuesday?! Use Giving Tuesday’s official headquarter site to help narrow down your contributions this year. From paying for someone’s coffee behind you to making a significant financial donation, no act of kindness is too small. Happy Giving!
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🤔 Mindfulness Moments: Those “Deep” Questions
It’s often said you can’t truly know and love others until you love yourself. If we want to be positive, influential people in the world (which all of us do, right? #positivedonutfam), it’s important to put on our journalist hats and ask ourselves the tough questions.
Take a few minutes to think over or journal your thoughts on these questions. Want to share your answer? Simply reply to this email to get the discussion started.
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If you could sit on a bench in the most beautiful piece of woods, who would you want sitting right next to you? Who would make a perfectly serene moment even better?
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What if you have more to celebrate than you realize? What would you celebrate today?
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What was your proudest moment, and how has it shaped you?
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In what ways are you the same as your childhood self? In what ways are you different?
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📰 Guess the Headline
👆 Can you guess which news headline accompanied this photo?
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School Mascot Escapes And Ends Up In Classroom
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Teacher Shocked When Student Shows Up To “Bring Your Pet to School Day” With Deer
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Deer Removed from Classroom at Tennessee Elementary School
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Here Comes Rudolf… School Takes Christmas Decorating a Little Too Seriously.
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🏆 What’s Your Win?
Drum roll please….
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🤔🤩 Kyle N. from Plymouth, MI, is celebrating his Positive DONUT wins.
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In response to last week’s newsletter, he shared “I managed to get all four brain teasers right on the first try 😎.” Way to go, Kyle!
🎭 Paul T. from MA, is a hardworking playwright creating art every day...
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“I had a creative breakthrough!!!” he shared with us on Instagram, “Finally!”
🎤 Lastly, I have my own win to share!
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For those of you who don’t know, outside of all things Positive DONUT, I’m a professional singer and actress. This week, after almost two years of not working in my field, I received a contract offer to return to the stage! I cannot wait to get back to performing and sharing music with people in the new year.
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🏅 I want to hear your wins.
Each week, we’re asking all of you, our amazing readers, to submit your everyday wins and accomplishments. Let's support and celebrate each other.
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Use this Google form to share what you're proud of or grateful for recently. Two or three responses will be featured in next week's newsletter!
Submit a win.
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📰 Guess the Headline Answer
If you guessed option C, you got it! (Although the “bring your pet to school day” one would’ve been amazing… )
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