At least three people in the Triangle area have experienced an act of human kindness recently. Enjoy these heart-warming letters. Got anybody you need to thank? Feel free to add yours to the comments.

We often get letters about months, weeks or days that have been proclaimed as special, but we simply do not have room to run letters like that. So here are a few about special time frames, as well as a variety of other letters, including one about the Miss California gay-marriage controversy.

Herein find more offerings of gratitude from N&O readers: for a lost ring found, for the response to the Duke Children's Hospital radiothon, for Raleigh's St. Pat's Parade and for the help offered to the Cornucopia House Cancer Support Center in Chapel Hill.

Herein find some gratitude for the RBC Center staff, for a Durham couple who helped a stranded motorist and for some good Samaritans who brightened the day of a hockey-loving couple. Anybody you need to thank?

Readers offer well-timed letters of thanks to several Triangle entities, including Golden Corral. Tell us who deserves your thanks.

Honest and helpful people in a local Wal-Mart and in downtown Raleigh help two women in bad situations find something good.

N&O readers offer gratitude to Good Samaritans, the City of Raleigh and its fine residents, Progress Energy workers and the Cary Police Department. Feel free to offer your own thankful comments. These letters appear online only.