5 most uplifting stories of the week

(NEWSER) – Generous gestures, not necessarily involving money, highlight the week's list of uplifting stories:

• Bride Loses Memory, Hubby Steps Up: When a car accident left a newlywed with a gap in her memory that wiped away all recollections of her wedding day, her husband came up with the perfect solution—a second wedding day.

• Kids of Charleston Victims Receive Anonymous Gift: A group of donors has raised more than $3 million for a scholarship fund for families of victims of the Charleston church shooting. Two notable things: The donors are anonymous, and their name for the fund is especially poignant.

• CEO Makes Surprise Gift to Workers: It was just another day at the office for 600 employees at Nashville health care company HealthStream—that is, until they received a surprise via a video message sent to their cellphones. Major hint: People were walking around afterward saying, "Hi, I'm an owner!' 'How are you, owner?'"

• Girl Scouts Take a Stand, Are Rewarded: When a Girl Scouts group in Washington state got a $100,000 donation that stipulated the money could not be used for transgender Scouts, they returned it. When people heard about that, they more than made up for the money.

• Mom Finds Long-Lost Son Thanks to Facebook Photo: An old Facebook photo has led to the reunion of a mother in California and the teenage son she hadn't seen in 15 years. And no wonder: He'd been taken to a different country at the age of 3 and not allowed to communicate with her.

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