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Eric Church’s guitar-as-life metaphor UNC commencement speech strikes a universal chord

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His daughter crashed on a skate ramp, and his response was a masterclass in awesome parenting

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Kitten named Duck learns to run on two legs and she looks like an adorable velociraptor

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California brought back beavers for the first time in 70 years, and the results are already amazing

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