Life is full of beautiful moments, but life is also about balance and you can't have beautiful moments without the sad ones.
A mother shows a picture of her son to a returning prisoner of war, 1947
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World War II veteran from Belarus Konstantin Pronin, 86, sits on a bench as he waits for his comrades at Gorky park during Victory Day in Moscow, Russia, on Monday, May 9, 2011. Konstantin comes to this place every year after WWII finished. This year he was the only person from the unit
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A 10 year old girl in Syria draws what it looked like in her village
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Old man at an In-N-Out burger eating with a picture of his wife
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ER Doctor after losing a 19-year old patient
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A billboard in Zambia
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Four Syrian rebels at the exact moment they were hit by a tank shell
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Rajani, 5, India. Long after midnight, Rajani is roused from sleep and carried by her uncle to her wedding. Child marriage is illegal in India, so ceremonies are often held in the wee hours of the morning. It becomes a secret the whole village keeps, explained one farmer.
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Dog guarding his friend the day he passed away, then laying where he had been the day after. Dogs mourn too
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Picture of a man being told he was innocent after 40 years in prison
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Letter found by rescuers in the Fraterville Mine in the aftermath of the Fraterville Mine explosion of 1902. 216 perished
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Two thieves (they stole 20 dollars to help pay for their mother’s kidney surgery) seconds before getting hanged. One of them cries in shoulders of the man who is going to hang him.
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Mother financed addiction by letting drug dealer rape her child
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Kelly Thomas begging for his life while getting beat to death by police officers
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Suicide note of a transgender women
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Girl graduates in front of her terminally ill mother