There were smiling children all the way, waving to complete strangers and cheer them up as they rushed towards Penang. Often whole families stood outside their homes and waved and smiled as if those on the trains were their favorite relatives. This is the simple village people of Malaysia. I was moved.

I had always traveled to Malaysia by plane or car, so this was the first time I was on a train. I did not particularly relish the long train journey and had brought along a dozen magazines to read and reread. I looked about the train. There was not one familiar face. I sighed and sat down to read my Economics.

It was not long before the train was across the Causeway and in Malaysia. Johore Baru was just another city like Singapore, so I was tired of looking at the crowds of people as they hurried past. As we went beyond the city, I watched the straight rows of rubber trees and miles and miles of green. Then the first village came into sight, immediately I came alive; I decided to wave back.

From then on my journey became interesting. I threw my magazines into the waste basket and decided to join in Malaysian life. Then everything came alive. The mountains seemed to speak to me. Even the trees were smiling. I stared at everything as if I was looking at it for the first time.

The day passed fast and I even forgot to have my lunch until I felt hungry. I looked at my watch and was surprised that it was 3:00 pm. Soon the train pulled up at Butterworth. I looked at the people all around me. They all looked beautiful. When my uncle arrived with a smile, I threw my arms around him to give him a warm hug. I had never done this before. He seemed surprised and then his weather-beaten face warmed up with a huge smile. We walked arm in arm to his car.

I looked forward to the return journey.

On March 25, 2010, Kate and David Ogg heard the words every parent fears: Their newborn son wasn’t going to make it. Their twins—a girl and a boy—were born two minutes apart and 14 weeks premature, weighing just over two pounds each. Doctors had tried to save the boy for 20 minutes but saw no improvement. His heartbeat was nearly gone, and he’d stopped breathing. The baby had just moments to live.

“I saw him gasp (喘气), but the doctor said it was no use,” Kate said. “I know it sounds stupid, but if he was still gasping, that was a sign of life. I wasn’t going to give up easily.”

Still, the Sydney couple knew this was likely goodbye. In an effort to treasure her last minutes with the tiny boy, Kate asked to hold him.

“I wanted to meet him, and for him to know us,” Kate told Today. “We’d resigned ourselves to the fact that we were going to lose him, and we were just trying to make the most of those last, precious moments.”

Kate unwrapped the boy, whom the couple had already named Jamie, from his hospital blanket and ordered David to take his shirt off and join them in bed. The first-time parents wanted their son to be as warm as possible and hoped the skin-to- skin contact would improve his condition. They also talked to him.

"We were trying to attract him to stay.” Kate said. “We explained his name and that he had a twin that he had to look out for and how hard we had tried to have him.”

Then something miraculous happened. Jamie gasped again—and then he started breathing. Finally, he reached for his father’s finger. The couple’s lost boy had made it.

A Texas mom named Samantha Whiting is going out of her way to thank a stranger. Although she only knew his first name and where he lived, Whiting was determined to track him down.

The incident occurred in August 2020, when Whiting and her 10-year-old daughter, Hayley, were at the beach in Monterey, California.Sarmantha went into the water to try to save her daughter, but was struggling. Bystander Kevinh Cozzi heard their screams, and raced into the waves to help. He was able to get Hayley to safety, with some assistance from a lifeguard. “He saved us,” Samantha told ABC News. “If it wasn’t for him risking his life in such a selfless act, I would have lost not only my own life but my baby girl.”

The Whitings only learned Kevin’s first name and that, he lived in Merced, California.They were visiting Monterey, and when they returned to their home in Texas, the family decided to find Cozzi to let him know they are deeply indebted to him who saved Hayley this summer when she was caught in a rapids. “He’s one of the biggest heroes I’ve ever met,” Hayley said. Last week, Samantha made a post on the Facebook group Merced Neighborhood Watch, and within hours, she was talking to Cozzi.

Cozzi and his fiancee(未婚妻) had to delay their wedding because of the coronavirus disease, and the Whitings decided to launch a GoFundMe to help them have the wedding of their dreams.So far, the page has raised close to $2,000-but Cozzi told ABC News he’s happier to know Hayley is safe than receiving a reward. He is thankful for their fundraiser, but told ABC News, “That girl being saved was enough for me, honestly.”

Now, both Samantha and Hayley have been invited to the wedding,set for next fall , and look forward to once again thanking Cozzi in person during the wedding.