OllyReading, UK
My buddy. Four lines on a Sunday night and it is quietly the most reliable thing in my week.
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Sunday 28 September 2025
Who in your life has been quietly good about this?
Name them, if you like. They will never know and it still helps. — asked by Wren
HuwWrexham, UK
Somebody at the pool showed me how to use the hoist for my mother. Ten minutes of her time.
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Nadine Your pharmacist sounds like a good one. They are the most underused people in the whole system.
HeddaCopenhagen, DK
Somebody I look after was kind to me, which is the wrong way round and I noticed.
3
MarenBremen, DE
The facilitator who stopped a room of six people talking at once and asked me how I actually was.
6
Anna Toast is a perfectly good answer and always has been.
NerysRhyl, UK
The union rep who sorted out fridge access at work in two emails.
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SadieSalford, UK
A friend I had not seen in a year who did not comment on anything at all.
6
IslaOban, UK
My husband, who has done the injection every week for a year and never once made it a thing.
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MarthaCork, IE
A stranger held a door and I nearly wept, which tells you what sort of week it has been.
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Delphi That is a lot to be holding. I hope somebody is asking about you.
ColNewquay, UK
Honestly it has been a lonely fortnight. Reading this box is most of my social life at the moment.
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RunaAarhus, DK
A colleague covered for me on a bad day and never mentioned it again.
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Prunella Boring wins are the real ones.