What do we give up for a moment of pleasure, a moment of peace, a moment leveraged to make ourselves look good to others ... never really existed. You feel like you’ve been living a fantasy ...

From rescues and reunifications to celebrating ends of an era, there were plenty of feel-good stories to celebrate in metro Phoenix this year. Who doesn’t love a good a-dog-ption story?

With 2024 in the books, we decided to look back on some of the best feel-good stories from the past calendar year. Ar'Darius Washington spent much of his first three seasons battling injuries ...