The week's good news: July 18, 2019

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1. Photographer uncovers negatives for couple who lost their wedding pictures in wildfire

This is an early 20th anniversary gift they'll never forget. When the Camp Fire swept through Grass Valley, California, last fall, it completely destroyed Marc and Mary Taylor's home. They lost all of their possessions, including decades worth of photos. Hoping she could recover some of them, Mary Taylor got in touch with the photographer, Richard Briggs, who shot their wedding on August 14, 1999. Briggs was thrilled when he started digging around and found the negatives, telling KCRA that usually, photographers don't keep them for so long. "They were a little faded," he said, but his wife who is "excellent in editing" was able to bring back "the color and the life into the photos." The Taylors cried when Briggs gave them not only a new wedding album, but also the negatives. "It gave us a piece of something back after losing everything," Marc Taylor said.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.