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Father’s unexpected and touching response to his son coming out
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By Shereen Dindar | Shine On – Wed, 17 Apr, 2013 2:44 PM EDT
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Levi Miles and his dad. (Levi's Adventures of a Nerd)

There are the kinds of stories that make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside and conjure up images of pansies and roses...and then there are the stories that really matter.

For those of you who think the two types are mutually exclusive, the tale of Levi Miles coming out to his father might change your mind.

Levi, a 21 year-old University of Wisconsin student, recently posted his story on his blog, "Levi's Adventures of a Nerd."

In the post, he describes in great detail how awkward and nervous he was to come out to his father, despite already being out to his mother for two years.

Levi recently posted a Facebook status that declared he was gay, which was not news to many of his friends whom he had already come out to, or who already suspected that he was. The level of support he received overwhelmed him and he immediately made a thank you followup post, unaware of who would read it.

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The next day, his parents picked him
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The secret to happiness? Believing you have more sex than your friends, study finds
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By Nadine Kalinauskas | Shine On – Wed, 17 Apr, 2013 1:24 PM EDT
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"Keeping up with the Joneses" might actually boost your personal happiness if "keeping up" means "having more sex than you think your friends are having," claims a new study.
According to research published in the journal Social Indicators Research, there are two aspects to sex-life satisfaction — and one of those is relative.

There's an increase in happiness that comes with sex, but there's also a relative aspect. (Thinkstock)"There is an overall increase in sense of well-being that comes with engaging in sex more frequently, but there’s also this relative aspect to it," says author Tim Wadsworth, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder.

"Having more sex makes us happy, but thinking that we are having more sex than other people makes us even happier," he adds.

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The researchers looked at more than 15,000 results from the General Social Survey in which respondents were asked about both happiness levels and sexual frequency to determine how having more sex impacted people's
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Dolls with Down syndrome toy company owner and mother faces critics
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By Shereen Dindar | Shine On – Wed, 17 Apr, 2013 12:38 PM EDT
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It's not every day you hear about the mother of a "disabled" child so motivated by the lack of dolls like her daughter on the market that she launches her own toy company.

Yet that's exactly the story of Pittsburgh, Pa. mother Connie Feda who has created Dolls For Downs, selling dolls with Down syndrome that look just like her 13-year-old daughter Hanna.

"There’s no doll that looks like me,” remarked Hanna a few years ago.

Feda says she's already received numerous orders for the dolls. (Dolls For Downs)It was a statement that became the impetus for her mother to create the Dolls For Downs company that, despite only officially launching next month, has already sold out its first 1,000 doll order and is taking pre-orders for the second batch of 1,000, reports the Toronto Star.

Feda initially thought she would sell a paltry 250 dolls online, yet she has received orders from 12 countries, including Brazil, Australia, Greece and Canada.

“We’ve got a lot of pre-orders from Canada,” she tells Global News.

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