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News travels fast in our modern world, with major stories only becoming a minor blip in the fast-paced news cycle. It’s easy to forget what happened only a few months ago, let alone what took place in the last decade. The 2010s were turbulent in some ways, but those years also saw so many heartwarming headlines. Here are 40 of the happiest stories that happened in the last decade. (Kaitlin Miller, The Daily Meal)