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"The minute you think you've seen it all, something else comes in that surprises you even more," Elizabeth Gross' doctor tells PEOPLE

“It was done in four sentences because I refused to spend another dollar on that woman," Christina Novak exclusively tells PEOPLE

There's really something extraordinary about discovering wildlife in your own backyard. It reminds you that the world is still full of surprises, even in the most familiar places.

“With James, my feelings are valued, validated,” Crystal, a best-selling author and the widow of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, tells PEOPLE

Finding love with a German pilot was the last thing Adri Pendleton expected after a breakup and a struggle to get her elderly dog back home to California from the Netherlands.

I'm sorry for the 18 lives cut short by a gunman in Lewiston. I'm sorry for the immeasurable loss of mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, coworkers, partners. My heart aches for the families with an empty space at their dinner table.

Mary Ann Winkowski, 76, tells PEOPLE she recently retired, but she'll never completely be out of the ghost biz

“It got me moving again, and got my mind off the sadness,” mom," Shelly Jimenez, whose son Chris died in May, tells PEOPLE

Scott Strode went from addict to advocate for a different way of staying sober: In 2006, he founded The Phoenix, a nonprofit community to uplift people in recovery through companionship and outdoor activity

Matt Neff helped his daughter Alex get her first post-college job through his LinkedIn account — so he reasoned the same strategy should work when she's looking for love