MANCHESTER, NH – So heartening, I had to share this here.

Take 12 minutes and 15 seconds to stop what you’re doing and listen to this NHPR story told by New Hampshire playwright and wordsmith Sean Hurley.

It’s an unexpected tale, almost too perfect to be true:

Below a half moon on a snowbound night high on a hill in the town of Littleton New Hampshire, an large man with an overturned bucket of tangled hair stepped into the lobby of the Hampton Inn.

“From Mankind to Saint Mick: Mick Foley’s Journey From Wrestling Cage To Santa’s Village” will touch you, whether you know much about the world of professional wrestling or one of its true characters, Mick “Mankind” Foley, or whether you simply acknowledge the capacity of the human heart, and its purest truth: The human spirit is subject to evolve when we allow life to move us in an improbable directions.

Click here for the story, but listen as you read. Or just listen.