"It's Just Someone Saying...You Can Be...This."

"If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day. That’s a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you’re going to have something special.”

Coach Jim Valvano's touching words at the ESPY awards were the motivation for me to start Ventipop. I want people to think, laugh and be moved by the stories featured here. Today's post is a re-commitment to that initial inspiration. Enjoy all our featured laugh and cry provoking videos on our Feel Page & Thanks so much for being a loyal Ventipop reader.

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"It Just Doesn't Feel Right Leaving Them." Ed Sheeran meets a young Liberian boy living on the streets in this moving video:

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An Unseen Angel: A Mother's Story of Faith, Hope, and Healing After Sandy Hook $12.67 By Alissa Parker

"You're experience is my worst nightmare, and of course it was our worst nightmare too. But I quickly understood that they didn't know how we were able to feel...We have a happily ever after. I just wanted people to not feel sorry for us."

On February 23, the furnace went out in Jesse and Maria Hulscher's home. Their son, Adler, was just born. It was winter in Minnesota.

"Feb 23rd.....that was the morning after Adler was born and I was just hopping out of the shower at my house about the get Henrick ready to go up the hospital to see Maria and baby Adler when the blower fan stopped working in our furnace," Jesse said. "I rushed to dial Magnuson Sheet Metal and I think Craig sensed the urgency in my voice that I needed someone to fix the problem and asap (need heat in the house for the new baby!).

"After explaining the new baby and the need to make sure we had heat, not only did they have some one over with 20 minutes of hanging up but....... checked the mailbox today waiting to find an invoice from them and this is what I find. Can't thank them enough for the great service, speedy response time and amazing technicians. Businesses like this earn customers for life!"