Dying 8 Yr Old Marries Sweetheart

[dgridley]

Reece Fleming, a dying eight-year-old boy “married” his “special friend” Elleanor Pursglove after proposing to her at a laser tag party.

Reece was diagnosed with leukemia in July 2004, and fought the disease for four years. In May, doctors told his family that the little boy had only weeks to live.

Reece’s mom, upon finding out that she was going to lose her little boy said “when we found out that we only had a few weeks with him we tried to do absolutely everything with him that we could”.

Including arranging a “wedding” for Reece and his sweetheart. Reece and Ellie had been what his mother calls “special friends” for years, until they had a “break up”. In recent months, though, Ellie visited Reece in the hospital and when his parents threw their ailing little boy a party, Reece popped the question to Elleanor.

more: http://www.jordansays.com/2008/07/24/dying-8-year-old-boy-marries-sweetheart/

:hearts: What more can you say?

 

[wierdo]

Aw, that's cool. Too bad they can't grow old together, that would be such a great story for their kids.

:hearts:

 

[dgridley]

Unfortunately, the boy died the day after the "wedding"..

The cynic in me says this story is almost too sappy to be true.. Snopes, anyone? I'm on my way out to work..

Sad, sad story, if true.

Aw, that's cool. Too bad they can't grow old together, that would be such a great story for their kids.

:hearts:

 

[baseballworld]

That is a sad story.

 

[Phoebe_]

wow.. that is cute but sad story

 

[trixie]

Oh that is a sad story I feel pity for his parent, I hope that boy is now at peace.

 

[interestedenough]

I don't know, but I don't see the cute in the story. It is really sad that the kid died, but that is no reason for putting little kids out of the context of their life, even if the terrible disease already did part of the work.

 

[NotSober]

Sad stuff..

 

[Mike]

If true - very sad, but also good to see that he was able to die being happy and having something accomplished thats obviously important to him and dear to his heart.

I question it a bit, though. This has the markings of the stories that these weekly papers print - "found bat boy, he escaped from a cave", etc. Think "Men in Black" type magazines.



M.

 

[HWW]

If it's true it's very sad - Id personally like to see medical research given the financial support world wide that it deserves. When you see what some governments spend up on it's pretty pathetic when we still have kids dying without a chance to experience the important things in life.

 

[Kenny]

If it's true it's very sad - Id personally like to see medical research given the financial support world wide that it deserves. When you see what some governments spend up on it's pretty pathetic when we still have kids dying without a chance to experience the important things in life.

Well here is one little thing we can do:
http://www.namepros.com/the-break-room/494785-help-cure-1-genetic-killer-children.html

Sorry for the hijack... but....every little bit helps. :tu:

 

[Phoebe_]

Time heals the wound... so teary

 

[Hurley4540]

Sad story

 

[dgridley]

No problem.. bump!

Well here is one little thing we can do:
http://www.namepros.com/the-break-room/494785-help-cure-1-genetic-killer-children.html

Sorry for the hijack... but....every little bit helps. :tu: