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A Little Bit of Awesome: 5/11/2020 Edition

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A Little Bit of Awesome: 5/11/2020 Edition

A 19-year-old in Albuquerque found a bag filled with $135,000 sitting next to an ATM and returned it. So the city honored him for being so honest. It turned out a worker had left the bag of cash next to the ATM, and forgot to load it into the machine.


Dennis Ruhnke is the Kansas farmer who went viral last month after he sent his extra N95 facemask to New York to help out. Well, it turns out Dennis went to Kansas State when he was younger, but had to drop out when his father passed away. He was only two credits short of graduating. So last week, the school rewarded him with a diploma.


A second-grade teacher in Indiana named Kelsey Pavelka built a plastic barrier in her front door with armholes, so she can give students a hug when they stop by to see her. Here’s audio of two students coming to visit.


A pregnant woman from New Jersey named Donna Molina got sick back in March, and had an emergency C-section two months before the baby was due. Right after the surgery, doctors had to put her in an induced coma. But she beat the virus, tested negative last week, and got to meet her new daughter just in time for Mother’s Day.


Comedian Caitlin Reilly did a parody video of that annoying co-worker in a Zoom meeting. She spends the whole meeting sucking up to the boss while passive-aggressively calling out her co-workers.


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