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Emily is now a healthy 6-year-old who likes riding her bike and playing with her friends, and you can either verify that this actually happened or share it right now and reap its immense social media capital.

Yes, you could slog through news sites looking for another source to corroborate this amazing story. But by then, one of your friends will probably have already posted this to Facebook, and he will be the one swimming in likes and comments instead of you. You can be the person who is always the first to share amazing stories like this one with your friends, or you can be the person who bumbles around the internet, looking to see if things are true or not.

Your call.
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If you’ve read this far down before sharing this, there is dwindling hope that one of your friends hasn’t posted it on social media while you’re too busy trying to make sure it actually happened. Maybe you still have time to be the first to share this on a lesser platform, like Blogspot or Pinterest, if you’re lucky. But if there is a lesson to be learned from Linda’s heartwarming tale of hope, it’s that checking the authenticity of inspiring stories you see on the internet only comes at a cost to you.

And let’s admit it: Whether or not it’s true, we’ll forget about all of this tomorrow and look at an inspiring photo of a three-legged army dog or a cop hugging a protester or something.

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