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    Inspirational Stories

    Reader’s Digest has the stories to lift your spirits and fill you with hope in your darkest moments. We’ve promised to be a source of joy, and these stories deliver. From everyday heros to reunited long-lost siblings, we’ve got the stories to inspire you.

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    Here’s How a 78-Year-Old Gambler Brought One Woman Humanity

    An unlikely friendship teaches one woman the importance of taking a chance on others.

    This Man Thinks He’s the Luckiest in the World—Even Though He Went Blind in College

    As a man goes blind, his friend watches his back.

    Forget Book Club: This Fishing Club Is the Ultimate Female Bonding Experience

    No competitions and no judgment—WI Women Fish brings women from six states and Canada together...

    He Was a Gangster. She Was His Prosecutor. Now Their Unlikely Friendship Is Changing Lives.

    DeQuandre Davis was doomed to a cycle of gang violence. Then everything changed.

    How a Boy and His Telephone Operator Formed a Lovely, Lasting Friendship

    In this Reader's Digest Classic, originally published in 1966 as "The Voice in the Box,"...

    My Family Abandoned Me. Then A Stranger’s Simple Kindness Changed My Life

    In a random act of kindness, strangers turned around one writer's awful day by lifting...

    The “Lost Boy” Who Built a Family

    One of the lost boys of Sudan, Peter Ter came to America with nothing—except a...