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TIL actor Peter Capaldi, as Doctor Who, made a video for an autistic 9-yr-old boy grieving the death of his grandmother. The boy’s father said that it had a positive effect: the boy smiled for the first time since learning of his grandmother’s death, and gained the courage to go to her funeral.

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