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Jonathan Antoine was 17, shy and bullied about his size. His school friend Charlotte had always stood up for him. Then they sang “The Prayer” on Britain’s Got Talent.

Emmanuel Kelly and his brother were found by nuns in a shoebox in Iraq. Then a woman named Moira Kelly walked through the orphanage door.

In 2011, João Pereira de Souza saved a starving, oil-soaked penguin on a beach in Brazil. He set the bird free, but Dindim had other plans.

In 1969, public television’s funding was about to be cut in half. Then Fred Rogers sat down before a gruff Senate committee chairman and simply talked about children’s feelings.

In 1967, Frank and Nancy Sinatra recorded “Somethin’ Stupid” together. It spent four weeks at No. 1, and no father and daughter have topped the American charts together since.

Archie Williams was 22 when he was sentenced to life without parole. Freed in 2019, he auditioned for America’s Got Talent with “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me,” and the room stood up.

Chelsea Pensioner Colin Thackery told the Britain’s Got Talent judges about Joan, his wife of 66 years. Then he sang the song that said it all, and there wasn’t a dry eye in the house.

In 2013, D-Day veteran Robert Blatnik returned to Normandy for the first time in 69 years. When he reached the spot on Omaha Beach where he came ashore, he fell to his knees.

In 2004, Toby Keith recorded “Mockingbird” with his daughter Krystal. Then the 19-year-old joined him onstage at the CMA Awards to sing it on country music’s biggest night.

On July 13, 1985, Queen walked onto the Live Aid stage at Wembley Stadium for just 21 minutes. It would later be voted the greatest live performance in rock history.