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How beautiful! A new chapter of their life can now begin.

Three years ago, Cynthia Nixon and her GF Christine Marinoni go engaged at a rally in support of same-sex marriage being legalized in New York. Since then, the state has loudly and proudly allowed gay couples to tie the knot and on Sunday, the ladies took advantage of the new law by getting hitched.

Cynthia's rep confirmed the nuptials this morning, simply stating

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They're becoming a Canine Brady Bunch!

Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton already have eight rescue puppies - respectively named Ophelia, Delta, Delilha, Jessi, Waylon, Virginia Bluebell, Black Betty and Cher - but according to the country crooner, they've added a new member to their ever-growing family: a puppy they've named Emmy Lou!

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Oh my.

When Windy Hill began feeling pains in her chest, on and off, for weeks after giving birth to her baby - she knew something was wrong.

The doctors couldn't find anything wrong, though. They thought it was only panic attacks from becoming a mother.

After the doctor left the room that's when the trouble began.

Here's what, Joseph Barry, her husband said:

"The doctor turned to me and said, 'Seems like she's OK. I think it was just a panic attack. He walked out of the room, was gone four or five minutes and I looked over and she had lost all color in her face." She says, 'It's happening again. I'm hurting.

The new mom doesn't remember anything after that. It's probably best that way - because at that moment, a whole portion of her heart died. Doctors suspect Hill's history of high blood pressure caused the left side of her heart to tear, cutting off a huge portion of blood to her heart.

There was no possible way to recover.

After the hospital performed a heart bypass, which didn't work, they told the new mother that she needed a transplant.

The problem was the wait for a heart donor can take years, and so the doctors had no choice but to prepare to ins all a temporary heart pump to keep her alive for the wait for the donor.

As Hill was put to sleep to perform the surgery, a surefire miracle occurred. No other words can describe what happened. It was one hundred percent a miracle.

20 minutes before the doctors placed the heart pump in, the surgeon received a call that would change Hill's life forever.

"We're prepping for surgery, which means in about 20 minutes I would have made a skin incision. My cell phone rings and it's the transplant coordinator. A donor heart was identified. I've been doing this for about 10 years and this is very rare, a first for me. And the timing of it. I could have gotten the call after making the incision, which would have made things much more difficult. I told the fiancé, the good news is we located a heart, but we want to be really sure this heart won't be immediately rejected."

They tested Hill's blood to make sure there wouldn't be any complications from surgery, and amazingly they found the surgery would be successful.

That is incredible, but wait there's more!

Here's how the fiancé describes waiting for his wife to wake up with her new heart:

"I was very excited, holding my breath. You know like when you're a kid at Christmas and couldn't wait to see what was under the tree? It's like that feeling times a thousand. [When I finally told Windy she had a new heart] she just looked at me for a minute. I said 'You hear me?' She looked at me again, her eyes got real big and she was moving her lips. She said, 'No I didn't.' I said, 'Yes you did. 'She looked at me and started crying. They gave me and Gracie a second chance with Windy. Our little girl gets to grow up with her mama. It's a miracle of life."

It truly is such a blessing that this happened, and we wish their family the best.

We cannot believe this and are so very touched.

See, miracles CAN happen.

Yay!

Men are beginning to close the longevity gap between them and women.

A study from the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation found that men are adding years to their lives at a faster rate than women.

Taking a look at data from 1989 to 2009, men expanded their life expectancy by 4.6 years on average, increasing longevity from between 66.1 and 81.6 years old, while women's longevity rose by 2.7 year on average, going to between 73.5 years and 86 years.

The reason for this trend?

Men are less likely to be obese because they tend to exercise more than women. Men are also adopting healthier habits in general.

NYC's health commissioner said:

"The whole [local] culture has changed. Smoking used to be seen as cool and hip –- now it's the opposite. Exercising and eating healthy [once were deemed] things only strange people did. Now they're mainstream."

Even though the life-expectancies are leveling out, experts don't think they'll ever be the same.

Mainly because of different risks of heart ailments and auto accident deaths.

So drive safe!

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Meet Cole. He saves 90% every time he goes shopping.

After both of his parents lost their jobs, Cole was graciously brought in by his ex-girlfriend's parents so he could finish his senior of high school. Maybe a little awkward but super nice!!

The one day, he started watching Extreme Couponing and became entranced! Determined to help support his family, he learned the ways of radical savings, and now he's the star coupon kid!

He even stores his stash of coups in his

DREAMS DO COME TRUE!

Dreams we didn't even know we were having! Ha!

Joel Kinnaman from The Killing (the BEST part of that show) and Gary Oldman together?? In RoboCop?? It like our casting-brains are caught in a never ending orgasm!

Gary Oldman is hands down one of the best actors in the industry, and we're super excited to hear that he's been tapped to be in the new RoboCop reboot!

Wait wait wait — who will he be playing?

The scientist who creates

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This is INcredible!

Aimee Copeland is a fighter -- it's only been a short amount of time since she had several extremities amputated, and only days since she's been able to breathe on her own.

Yet, she can now sit up... for hours on end!

They had originally expected an hour tops, but she lasted 5.

Here's what her dad said:

"When the doctors put Aimee up in that chair, their expectations were to give her an hour. Five hours later, Aimee decided it was time to lie down. Had she been running an Olympic marathon, I think Aimee would have experienced a record-breaking, gold-medal moment."

SO AWESOME!

We're so happy to hear this! Aimee sounds like an incredible person with an incredible will!

We hope you continue to get better, Aimee!