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6 True Stories to Make

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There were also no sanitation facilities
or heat available on the ship, and that's how the
floating sardine can was forced to navigate the
mine-infested Korean waters without proper
bomb-detecting equipment. Shit, the only
weapon on the ship was Captain LaRou's
service pistol. Mercifully he didn't need it
because after two grueling days at sea, the
14,000 refugees finally reached safe heaven on
Geoje Island ... on Christmas Day.
The most remarkable thing about this
story wasn't that none of the passengers died in
the bowels of the cold, dark ship, but that they
actually ended up with more people than they
started with. That's right: five women actually 1 Woman Survives After Being Buried Festive Christmas Quotes
gave birth on the ship before reaching Geoje in Snow for Three Days That Will Get You in the
Island, which makes you wonder why has no
one made a fucking movie about this yet? It was the week before Christmas in 2008, and Holiday Spirit
Canada was undergoing a massive, apocalyptic
2. Woman's Lost Dog Is Found 1,300 snowstorm.The weather conditions Let us keep Christmas beautiful without a

Miles Away on Christmas Night unfortunately created a complex dilemma for thought of greed.
Donna Molnar, a 55-year-old housewife from - Ann Garnett Schultz
In April 2006, an Aurora, Colorado, woman Ontario, Canada, who really wanted to bake
named Vonda Lundstrom suffered the most cookies that day. At least, we assume it was May you never be too grown up to search the
heartbreaking situation not involving a wood cookies, which are the only reason a sane person skies on Christmas Eve.
chipper that any dog lover could endure: her pet would ever venture outside during - Unknown
rat terrier, Daisy, ran away from home and didn't Snowpocalypse 2008 to buy baking supplies
come back for months. During that time, like Mrs. Molnar did. That was the last her Unless we make Christmas an occasion to
Lundstrom searched high and low for the lost family saw her for the next three days. share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska
pup, but found no trace of her. Finally, she was After police were notified that Mrs. won't make it 'white.'
forced to accept that Daisy was probably never Molnar did not return home from her shopping - Bing Crosby
coming back. trip, her abandoned car was found in a rural
But seven months later, Vonda parking lot. Suddenly the search for the missing Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause
Lundstrom got a call from a woman in woman was on, even if the raging snowstorm and reflect on the important things around us.
Knoxville, Tennessee, who claimed that she made it a virtual certainty that Mrs. Molnar was - David Cameron
found a stray dog wandering down the street in dead and buried under a heap of snow.
front of her house, which just happened to be a Miraculously, though, it turned out that What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the
female rat terrier. She got Lundstrom's contact everyone had it only half right because a dog past, courage for the present, hope for the
info after calling the number on the dog's rabies named Ace did eventually find the missing future.
tag and getting the dog's vet in Colorado, which woman buried under nearly 3 feet of snow in a - Agnes M. Pahro
confirmed that she did indeed find Daisy field. The twist here is that she was still totally
Lundstrom, and of course she found the dog on alive and conscious despite her body Love the giver more than the gift.
Christmas. Hell, she probably found the dog temperature having fallen to 86 degrees - Brigham Young
under a double rainbow or something. Fahrenheit.
Here's why this story points to Daisy Mrs. Molnar was then immediately Christmas is like candy; it slowly melts in your
actually being the canine Jesus. Other than her taken to the hospital and treated for mouth sweetening every taste bud, making you
being found on Christmas, there's the whole hypothermia and frostbite, eventually pulling wish it could last forever.
business of Knoxville being located 1,300 miles through on Christmas Eve, that magic time - Richelle E. Goodrich, "Smile
away from Aurora. That's more than one-third when Death waves his hand and goes: "Oh, get Anyway"
the length of the continental United States, out of here, you knucklehead. I'll get you next
across numerous states full of wild animals, time." Christmas isn't just a day, it's a frame of mind.
deranged hill folk, and swarms of drugged-out Donna Molnar later explained that she - Valentine Davies, "Miracle on 34th
meth heads, and that's just in Kentucky. collapsed while trying to get help after a Street"
No one knows how Daisy managed to snowplow blocked her car. But as luck would
survive such a journey, but we're betting all have it, the falling snow created a protective, Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories
those hardships paled in comparison to heat-retaining cocoon around the woman, who gather and dance — each beautiful, unique,
returning home only to discover that Vonda concluded this potentially tragic episode in the and gone too soon.
Lundstrom has replaced Daisy with a new most Canadian way possible by apologizing to - Deborah Whipp
terrier named Elsie. That wasn't a joke. everyone for almost freezing to death.[]

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