When I was a kid, my father, was a car lover. He was a member of the Toronto Modified Car Club in the 1950s and early 1960s. In 1979, we moved from Toronto to Los Angeles. We had to sell pretty much everything, our cars, our furniture. We flew out to L.A., and the next day, my dad walked to a used car lot and bought a Cutlass Supreme. He painted the wheels the same color as the car’s body. That was our family car and our only car, all through the 1980s.

In the 1990s, my dad got a company car. The Oldsmobile sat in the garage and started to get ignored. I became a car guy and got a 1969 Mustang when I was 21. I tore it apart, rebuilt the engine.

There were a bunch of other cars I worked on, all Ford and Shelby stuff, and I built a number of car-themed guitars, with Shelby colors and configurations(配置). But I always loved the Oldsmobile. I would wash it every now and then, and start it up.

Around 2012, my father threw out the idea of getting rid of the Oldsmobile because he did not like to see it decaying(衰败). I said, “No way. Why don’t you let me play around with it?” I drove the car home and dove in.

I had worked on so many cars, but never any General Motors products. Mustangs were easy to tear down; you could do it in a couple days. But this Oldsmobile had so many small pieces. It took a long time to take apart. I sent some parts of the car to a guy in New Jersey to be rebuilt. I got the seats changed and I had a paint guy do the paint. But the rest of it I did myself. Along the way, my father would ask how it was going. I would downplay it, “It’s going really slow.”

I finally got it all together, and it happened to be Father’s Day.

When we got to the restaurant, I had my friend hiding in the bushes with cameras.

In early 2017, Kevin Duke started thinking about his beloved daughter’s very special upcoming birthday. Like every parent, he wanted to gift his daughter with a truly perfect present, one that she would really appreciate and could enjoy for a long time. He eventually settled on a second hand car.

This Duke purchased the car a few weeks ahead of his little girl’s 16th birthday. This meant he had plenty of time to give it a good thorough cleaning and fix-up, and make sure it worked perfectly. But when he did clean-up, he suddenly noticed something that grabbed his attention immediately.

It was a small envelope which said “New Car Owner: Important Info Inside” letter was from Archey and it began simply enough: “To the person that gets this car,” “I just wanted to let you know what a special vehicle you’ve bought.” As the letter went on, the tragic circumstances around the car’s previous owner began to unfold. “This car belonged to my mom, but she passed away in a house fire along with my 6-year-olddaughter.”

“We took road trips and listened to country music with the windows open,” she recalled in the heartfelt letter. “Love, joy, and adventures were all we had in this car,” she wrote. “Now that it’s yours, please remember it isn’t just a car. It’s a memory. It’s really heartbreaking to part with it, but I have to. Finance permitting, I dream one day of being able to buy it back. So please be nice to it…”

Despite the great tragedy she had been through, all Archey wanted, as the letter reveals, was for the new owner to experience the same happiness that she had so cherished in the past. As Duke sat in the car reading this mysterious letter, his eyes began to fill with tears. It soon became clear that it wouldn’t be enough simply to treat this car with love.

He had to do something—and he knew exactly what.

Quickly, the post online spread widely.

Gen and her 5-year-old daughter found a fox cub (幼崽) trapped between her and her neighbour’s fence. The poor cub looked as though it had fallen down between the fence. It was stuck on its back with its limbs in the air.

Gen put gloves on and carefully freed the cub from the fence, but it was clear that it was shocked and injured. When she put it down, it couldn’t even move. She contacted their local wildlife rescue charity soon, but they said they couldn’t help because they didn’t have enough staff members. “We shouldn’t leave it there to die,” Gen said to her daughter. So they took it back and tried their best to look after it.

They fed the fox cub and kept it warm and clean. The fox cub slowly began to regain its strength and was able to walk, only a few feet at first, though. Once the fox cub had recovered, Gen felt clear that it wanted to look for its family, so they put it in a box outside in the garden for periods of time with some food and water, hoping its family might come to look for it.

At first, there was no sign of the mother fox. But then one night, something had visited Gen and her husband David’s garden. The next morning, the family were shocked to see the garden had been torn apart. They thought the mother fox must have had come looking for her cub.

“The mother fox was angry,” said David. “Trying to think about what she must have been going through to destroy so much of our stuff,” said Gen. They thought they had to create a good chance to get them back together. Then a genius idea came to them.

David attached a washing basket to a long piece of rope and placed the fox cub underneath it.

After observing the garden for just 15 minutes, the mother fox appeared.