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GOOD NEWS SUNDAY EDITION
GOOD NEWS SUNDAY October 18, 2026
Six real stories this week. Here’s what went right.
THE ORIGAMI CRANE
A stranger taught a girl to fold a paper crane, and she waited ten years to look inside it.
Rika Matsuda was 7 when she got a new bike. When she tried the brakes, nothing happened, and she slammed into a wall. A man in his 20s took her to a water fountain and helped her wash her injured foot. Then he gave her his phone to call her grandfather.
He taught her to fold a crane the right way, she recalled. As they parted, he said nothing. He smiled and handed her the crane. She put it in her…
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