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If you're looking for something unusual to give your mother this Sunday, you might consider

a gift that is truly celestial.

Christie's auction house is selling a 29-pound lump of moon rock for $2.5 million.

The rock, technically called NWA 12691, was found two years ago in the Sahara Desert, where it probably

crash landed during an ancient meteor shower. It is exceedingly rare. Less than 1,500 lunar meteorites

have been discovered over the years, just enough to fit inside a small car. NWA 12691 is the fifth

largest piece of the moon on Earth, dwarfing even those returned by Apollo astronauts.

You don't need to spend $2.5 million, however, to give someone a gift they will truly appreciate.

Thousands of American graduates are writing the slogan, Gounds for Good,

on their mortar boards after donating their gowns to health care workers

to use as personal protective equipment in fighting the coronavirus pandemic.

Gounds for Good is the name of a charity begun

three weeks ago by Nathaniel Moore, a frontline physician assistant in Vermont. He is asking

graduates to donate their gowns to more than 75,000 frontline responders. Such gowns worn backwards,

with the zippered opening in the rear and the high collar in front,

meet the CDC requirements for covering the body.

On the theme of selfless service, consider Galena Yaakovliva.

As a child during the World War II siege of Leningrad, she learned to make the best of fearful times.

Today she uses these lessons as she delivers food and supplies to needy people, locked down because of the pandemic. The 80-year-old drives a white minivan every day through the streets of St. Petersburg. She was helping others for a decade before the pandemic struck, and continues to serve in these difficult times.

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