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Great wrong number story: A woman kept calling the wrong number, misdialing the area code; she wanted Maryland but kept getting a guy in Rhode Island who finally struck up a conversation which led to a 20-year friendship. It's sweet and they finally met in person this Thanksgiving, and, yeah, this deserves an awwwwww. (WSVN-TV/Miami)

What's Florida without palm trees? Might have to get used to it, someday, at least, not because they're dying off but because some cities are looking to replace them with other trees better suited to fighting climate change. Turns out palm trees don't pull carbon out of the atmosphere at nearly the same rate as other trees. Don't expect them to rip down the palms, not yet, at least, but that's the reasoning for planting other tree over palms. (WFOR-TV/Miami)

How bad is the school bus driver shortage? One Delaware school district is preparing to resort to having kids return to online classes because they can't get the students to the school building.That bad. (KYW-TV/Philadelphia)

An award-winning author of crime novels in Spain, a feminist professor who wrote under a pseudonym and was quite secretive, was exposed when she won an award and turned out to be three men who took advantage of the marketing opportunity to pose as a female writer and got honored for "her" work. Does the author's identity matter to you when you're reading a book? If it's a good story, is it an issue for you that the author might not be who you think it is? Or does the deception repel ...