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Posted On: July 29th 2026, 11:32 am

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Want to be selected for one of five trips to the 2027 Boston Marathon presented by Bank of America, including a guaranteed race entry and hotel? We’ve teamed up with @bostonmarathon to give 5 runners with incredible stories a chance to be selected for a trip of a lifetime. Here’s what you need to do: 👇 🗽If you’re in New York this weekend: Head to The Runna Commitment Wall at Franklin Point (12 Franklin St, Brooklyn, NY 11222). ⏰ 10/31/2026 (11am - 3pm) ⏰ 11/01/2026 (11am - 5pm) Sign the waiver at the door and your application link will be sent straight to your inbox. Complete the application and tell us your story for a chance to be selected. Sign The Runna Commitment Wall to confirm your pledge. 🌍Not in New York? Check our link in bio. Complete the application form and tell us your story for a chance to be selected. Please note: entrants must tell us their story to be in with a chance of being selected. This is not a random draw. Both entry routes lead to the same application and judged selection process. Available to entrants in UK, Ireland and US. All giveaway T&Cs are linked in our bio. #bostonmarathon #marathongiveaway
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#VNL2026: VOLLEYBALL WAS NEVER MEANT TO STAND STILL ✨ Movement. Energy. Emotion. 🔥 Every jump, every swing, every moment captured in a different light. When volleyball becomes art through the lens of Milad Payami. 📸🎨 🏐 #BePartOfTheGame #Volleyball
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If you ask me what my biggest blessing in life is, without a second thought, I’d say being born as this beautiful man’s daughter. My Vappa. ❤️ If you ask me who the kindest, most empathetic and understanding person I know is, my answer will always be Vappa. He is the first true feminist I have ever known, even before I learnt what feminism meant. I grew up watching him cherish Umma, respect her independence and stand beside her as an equal. He never sat me down to teach me what a healthy marriage should look like. I watched my parents cook together, respect each other and stand by each other. Fawaz recently told me that in almost two months of living with my parents, he had never once seen them fight or argue. And I thought about how lucky I have been to grow up witnessing a love like theirs. Vappa has unknowingly set the bar so high for every man in my life, and I will forever be grateful for that. Now, as I walk through one of the biggest uncertainties of my life, I watch him find happiness wherever he can. A walk in the park. A new tree or plant. Beautiful weather. Even a 50p drink in a supermarket. The way his eyes light up when he discovers something new, the curiosity with which he looks at the world, the gratitude he expresses for the smallest things. He is in his fifties, yet there is a little boy inside him who still knows how to be amazed by life. And somewhere along the way, I have realised how much of that I had taken for granted. How many little things I had walked past without noticing. How much there is to be grateful for, even when life feels unbearably uncertain. Watching him now, I am learning all over again that kindness is never wasted, that happiness doesn’t have to be grand to be real, and that we can carry our own pain without making the world around us a sadder place. So, if you ask me what my biggest flex in life is, it isn’t anything I have achieved, anything I own, or anything I have become. It is that I was born as the daughter of one of the kindest human beings I have ever known. A man who taught me what love, respect, empathy and feminism look like without ever needing to name them. And I get to call him my Vappa 💎💕❤️
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