To be fair, judging by the title this is indeed a personal interest story. (Edit: It is another thing that way too many popular articles disguise themselves as

To be fair, judging by the title this is indeed a personal interest story. (Edit: It is another thing that way too many popular articles disguise themselves as personal stories as though assuming that more readers will be attracted to a tabloid kind of piece than to the subject itself; the problem may be that most subjects are old and generally not interesting any more, whereas new personal stories appear every day!)