Feel Good Friday

“His father’s voice, the sounds of passing cars and scissors clipping his hair: An 11-year-old boy is hearing for the first time in his life after receiving a breakthrough gene therapy.”

+ Daughter saves her mother’s life with organ donations — twice. (The rest of our mothers: “And you never even bother to call.”)

+ ‘I just count the laps’: Canadian swimmer, 99, breaks three world records. (If I can out of a pool and dry myself off at that age, I’ll consider it a win.)

+ The National Hole-in-One Registry has determined that the odds of making two aces in one round are 67 million-to-1. Cliff Romme just defied those odds.

+ World’s first white rhino IVF pregnancy could save subspecies with only two living animals remaining. (Cut to the Baby Rhino a few years from now: “I never asked to be born!”)