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Hope's Story
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This is the tale of a unique wish kid and her dream of making other sick kids wishes come true during her most difficult hour. It's a story about a community and indeed a nation that paused from it's everyday routine life to take notice of a special person. Tens of thousands spared a moment from their busy lives to share their hard earned money and valuable time with this terrific young lady and made her wish a reality for everyone to share.
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It all started in early December 2003, when the wish-granting team of Lynne Allen and Kelli Breaux, met with an amazing twelve year-old girl named Hope Stout. When they asked Hope to make a wish, she responded by asking, “How many children are waiting to have their wishes granted?” The wish team told her that 155 children were waiting. She immediately told them to make that her wish, explaining that she wanted to grant the wish of every child we had on our waiting list. She also wanted to do it by January 16th, 2004 at a Hollywood style celebration. After some rather frantic conversations with the main office, they came to the realization that we needed to raise $1,000,000 in thirty days, in order to grant Hope’s wish.
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Although not quite sure how to do it, the wish team formed a committee and started planning for an event they called the “Celebration of Hope”. They had tremendous help from Hope’s parents, Stuart & Shelby Stout. They also had the help of their dear friends Tom Reeder and Bruce Mullan. Tom & Bruce got their company, Swisher, involved.
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