Author: Mariah Wheeler

Having your parents around your childhood gives you a feeling of safety. If you are forced to grow up without parental presence or knowing your parents abandoned you, there is a chance you might grow up feeling some sort of resentment towards your parents. Xueli is a 17-year-old born who was abandoned at birth by her parents. She was left at the door of an orphanage and the identity of her parents was not known in the slightest. She was named by the staff at the orphanage, the ‘Xue’ in her name means snow while ‘Li’ means beautiful. She was named this because…

A pet cat became a hero after saving her owner’s life by pounding her chest to wake her up as she was experiencing a heart attack. The 42-year-old cat owner was fast asleep when the life-threatening incident happened. It was her seven-year-old cat, Billy who meowed in her ears and hit her chest with its paws until she finally woke up at 4:30 a.m. covered in sweat.  This is when Sam realized that she could not move her body and that she had been experiencing shooting pain down her right side. Unable to understand her symptoms, she called out to her…