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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDying Girl's Christmas Wish Granted by 10,000 Carolers
Dying girl's Christmas wish granted by 10,000 carolersCNN
Eight-year-old Laney Brown will never see Christmas again. Her doctors say leukemia will take her soon.
Laney loves music. Loves to dance, loves Taylor Swift, loves Christmas carols. As her dying wishes, she asked to meet the country superstar and for some people to come by her house for a night of caroling, CNN affiliate WFMZ reported.
On Friday -- her birthday -- Laney and Swift video chatted through FaceTime, a software application that allows callers to see each other on Apple products. Saturday night the singers came. At first it was hundreds of people, then thousands. Then it was 10,000.
They came to her home in West Reading, Pennsylvania, and even though she was too weak to go to the window, she heard the wonderful music. "I can hear you now!!! Love you!" she said through a photo her family posted to a Team Laney Facebook page showing the girl, two thumbs up despite a breathing mask, lying in bed.
The rest: http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/22/us/dying-girl-christmas-carol-wish/
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Dying Girl's Christmas Wish Granted by 10,000 Carolers (Original Post)
WilliamPitt
Dec 2013
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Paulie
(8,462 posts)1. ∞
iandhr
(6,852 posts)2. Stuff like this restores my faith in humanity.
zonkers
(5,865 posts)3. What a post, WP.
cvoogt
(949 posts)4. Oh man
Brings back painful yet happy memories of my cousin who succumbed to leukemia around the same age. What a wonderful gesture
JI7
(89,252 posts)5. that is so nice
Logical
(22,457 posts)6. Wow, life is hard on people at times! nt
Vashta Nerada
(3,922 posts)7. What a good but sad story.
tblue
(16,350 posts)8. Me cry.
Poor baby! Poor her loved ones too. Why? WHY?
napkinz
(17,199 posts)9. just read in another thread she passed away today
WillyT
(72,631 posts)10. Another Pic...