oscar the cat

Photo credit: HyperionBooksVideos/YouTube – Oscar the cat comforted dying residents at a Rhode Island nursing home for 17 years.

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Hospice cat ‘predicted’ death, snuggling up to nursing home residents hours before they died

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An Operation Smile volunteer reverses an oxygen mask so a child with a cleft condition can blow a bubble for the first time in Guadalajara, Mexico. (Operation Smile Photos)

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How Bubbles Help Kids with Cleft Conditions

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