A man badly injured in the Boston Marathon bombing has become engaged to a woman who helped nurse him back to health. James Costello, who was watching at the race’s finishing line, was severely burned and cut by shrapnel in the April 15 attacks. He met Krista D’Agostino while recuperating in the rehabilitation hospital where she works as a nurse. The couple began dating, and decided to marry. “I now realized why I was involved in the tragedy,” Costello said. “It was to meet my best friend, and the love of my life.”
A deaf father heard his daughter’s singing voice for the first time last week, when she surprised him with a Christmas song after he had a hearing aid fitted. Ken Stehle of St. Louis had been deaf since birth, but is now able to hear some sounds using a wireless device. Soon after he had the device fitted, his daughter Ashley surprised him at her school Christmas concert with a solo serenade. Ashley, whose mother is also deaf, said she always found it “heartbreaking” that her parents couldn’t hear her sing. “But now my dad can hear me, and it’s awesome,” she said.
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