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Batkid won our hearts. Now he's got something much better: He's cancer free.
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Inspired Life
Batkid won our hearts. Now he’s got something much better: He’s cancer free.
By Allison Klein
November 15 at 1:12 PM
When he was 5 years old and battling leukemia, the boy known as Batkid captivated the country as he dramatically “saved” Gotham from the bad guys in 2013. He just clinched another, much bigger, victory: He passed his 5-year mark being cancer free.
It is an important milestone for Miles Scott, now 10, who lives in Northern California and was diagnosed with leukemia when he was a year old.
“He’s doing great!,” announced the Make-A-Wish Greater Bay Area foundation, which helped make his crime-fighting dream come true in 2013 by staging several events across San Francisco as tens of thousands of people watched him lock up The Riddler during a bank heist and save a kidnapped victim from The Penguin.
The foundation pulled out all the stops for Miles, converting two black Lamborghinis into Batmobiles, as the tot was guided by pleas of help from San Francisco’s then-Police Chief Greg Suhr. A crowd of 20,000 people gathered in the streets around from City Hall to watch the spectacle, and even President Barack Obama weighed in, saying “no more supervillains because Batkid cleaned up the streets. I love BatKid.”
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Allison Klein has been a reporter at The Washington Post since 2004, with a hiatus from 2013 to 2017. She anchors the Inspired Life blog, writing about surprising or unusual tales of humanity. She spent many years covering crime, policing and police policy. Previously, she worked at the Baltimore Sun and the Miami Herald. Follow https://twitter.com/alliklein
Batkid won our hearts. Now he’s got something much better: He’s cancer free.
By Allison Klein
November 15 at 1:12 PM
When he was 5 years old and battling leukemia, the boy known as Batkid captivated the country as he dramatically “saved” Gotham from the bad guys in 2013. He just clinched another, much bigger, victory: He passed his 5-year mark being cancer free.
It is an important milestone for Miles Scott, now 10, who lives in Northern California and was diagnosed with leukemia when he was a year old.
“He’s doing great!,” announced the Make-A-Wish Greater Bay Area foundation, which helped make his crime-fighting dream come true in 2013 by staging several events across San Francisco as tens of thousands of people watched him lock up The Riddler during a bank heist and save a kidnapped victim from The Penguin.
The foundation pulled out all the stops for Miles, converting two black Lamborghinis into Batmobiles, as the tot was guided by pleas of help from San Francisco’s then-Police Chief Greg Suhr. A crowd of 20,000 people gathered in the streets around from City Hall to watch the spectacle, and even President Barack Obama weighed in, saying “no more supervillains because Batkid cleaned up the streets. I love BatKid.”
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Allison Klein has been a reporter at The Washington Post since 2004, with a hiatus from 2013 to 2017. She anchors the Inspired Life blog, writing about surprising or unusual tales of humanity. She spent many years covering crime, policing and police policy. Previously, she worked at the Baltimore Sun and the Miami Herald. Follow https://twitter.com/alliklein
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