A Beautiful Reminder of How Amazing People Can Be (Make-A-Wish)
A Beautiful Reminder of How Amazing People Can Be (Make-A-Wish)
#1A Beautiful Reminder of How Amazing People Can Be (Make-A-Wish)
Posted: 4/30/10 at 3:48pm
Boy with cancer turns into a superhero for a day:
Thursday was shaping up to be just another school day for 13-year-old Erik Martin, but then something extraordinary happened: Spiderman called.
Spiderman happens to be one of the few people who knows that Erik, too, has a secret identity — he's Electron Boy, a superhero who fights the powers of evil with light.
And Spiderman needed Erik's help.
Erik, who is living with liver cancer, has always wanted to be a superhero. On Thursday, the regional chapter of the Make-A-Wish Foundation granted him that wish with an elaborate event that involved hundreds of volunteers in Bellevue and Seattle.
The local chapter, which serves four states, grants more than 300 wishes every year to children with life-threatening medical conditions, but only a few of them involve so many participants.
Pulling off a wish like this one required a big story, and a lot of heart. And so, with a note of panic in his voice, Spiderman explained the dilemma: "Dr. Dark" and "Blackout Boy" had imprisoned the Seattle Sounders in a locker room at Qwest Field. Only Electron Boy could free them.
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David walked into the valley
With a stone clutched in his hand
He was only a boy
But he knew someone must take a stand
There will always be a valley
Always mountains one must scale
There will always be perilous waters
Which someone must sail
-Into the Fire
Scarlet Pimpernel
Updated On: 4/30/10 at 03:48 PM
#2A Beautiful Reminder of How Amazing People Can Be (Make-A-Wish)
Posted: 4/30/10 at 5:15pmThat is f*cking AWESOME! Actually made me cry.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#2A Beautiful Reminder of How Amazing People Can Be (Make-A-Wish)
Posted: 4/30/10 at 7:38pm
WOW!
I couldn't get through that without bawling.
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#3A Beautiful Reminder of How Amazing People Can Be (Make-A-Wish)
Posted: 4/30/10 at 9:12pmMake-A-Wish is a wonderful organization! I've worked with them on a few projects and I recently discussed them with the pres. of our fundraising program for the possibility of working with them on a large scale. They really do make little dreams come true!
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#4A Beautiful Reminder of How Amazing People Can Be (Make-A-Wish)
Posted: 4/30/10 at 9:27pmI've gone all onion-eyed. That was a lovely story.
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#5A Beautiful Reminder of How Amazing People Can Be (Make-A-Wish)
Posted: 5/2/10 at 1:55amI love Edgar Hansen I am so glad he was part of this...it made me cry !!!
I have RSD...but it doesn't have me!!!!
JbaraFan1
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/04
#6A Beautiful Reminder of How Amazing People Can Be (Make-A-Wish)
Posted: 5/2/10 at 3:55amThanks for posting about this, jacobtsf. What a lovely story!
#7A Beautiful Reminder of How Amazing People Can Be (Make-A-Wish)
Posted: 5/2/10 at 11:11amWhat a great thing to do for this young boy. I too have tears in my eyes.
Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder
#8A Beautiful Reminder of How Amazing People Can Be (Make-A-Wish)
Posted: 5/2/10 at 2:40pmThanks, jacobtsf. That was a wonderful reminder of the "positive power of people!"
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/08
#9A Beautiful Reminder of How Amazing People Can Be (Make-A-Wish)
Posted: 5/2/10 at 2:44pmThat was really sweet.
KFTC!!!!!
#10A Beautiful Reminder of How Amazing People Can Be (Make-A-Wish)
Posted: 5/2/10 at 2:48pmThat was adorable. I had a smile on my face and a tear in my eye the whole time I was reading that.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/05
#11A Beautiful Reminder of How Amazing People Can Be (Make-A-Wish)
Posted: 5/5/10 at 2:13am
*bump*
Just wanted to read this again, and share with anyone who missed it.
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