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When a dad overheard his son on the phone with a friend discussing his struggles to confront his parents about his sexuality, the dad left his son this truly touching letter.

The letter reads:

“Nate, I overheard your phone conversation with Mike last night about your plans to come out to me. The only thing I need you to plan is to bring home OJ and bread after class. We are out, like you now. I’ve known you were gay since you were six, I’ve loved you since you were born. Dad. P.S. Your mom and I think you and Mike make a cute couple.”

The message went viral after a FCKH8.com, an activist organization for gay youth, posted it on their Facebook page. The organization raises money for LGBT charities and helps spread the message of love, not hate, through fun t-shirts.

One of the group’s organizers, Luke Montgomery, tells Mashable that his group gets more than a dozen similar messages a day, but only post a few that really speak to them.

“You can imagine how happy we are that this father and son’s story is really touching people so deeply,” Montgomery says. “We hope it sets a good example for fathers to love their kids the way they were born. The fact that it has been shared by so many sadly means this kind of acceptance is both too rare and deeply craved by LGBT people who are so used to being rejected by families.”

via Dad’s Moving Letter to Gay Son Goes Viral.

A Chili’s restaurant in Midvale, Utah, was the subject of a heartwarming Facebook post over the weekend after “fixing” a customer’s cheeseburger.

The above screenshot, taken from the restaurant’s Facebook page, was shared by a woman named Anna Kaye MacLean, who visited the restaurant with her husband and 7-year-old sister, who has autism. In her comment, MacLean says her sister ordered what she always does: a cheeseburger. When it arrived, though, she didn’t seem interested.

“She calmly said, “No, I don’t want it.” Cheeseburgers, or ‘Krabby Patties’ as we sometimes call them, are her FAVORITE! So this behavior was VERY strange. So I asked her, “Why don’t you want it?” She replied, “It’s broken. I need another one thats fixed.” Then it dawned on me why she wasn’t eating it. It’s because it was cut in half. Being a child with autism, she has to have certain things in a particular order at all times. One slight change in her routine can change the course of the day instantly.”

MacLean asked the server for another cheeseburger, explaining why her sister had perceived her current burger as broken. Soon, a new — and un-cut — sandwich was served.

“[She] said, “OH FANK YOU! You fixded my cheeseburger!” When Lauren walked away, [she] just sat there for a second and looked at her new burger. She looked like so deep in thought … just staring at it … then she let out a big ”OH I missed you!!” and started kissing the burger over and over again.”

via Touching Photo of Girl With Autism at Chili’s Goes Viral.