The Goodness of America
Love Letters From Dogs
Seven-year-old Emma Mertens of Hartland, Wisconsin, Emma received a devastating diagnosis, and so people all over the country are doing their best to cheer her up.
Little Emma is an avid dog lover, so when a family friend posted on social media that Emma was diagnosed on January 23 with an aggressive and very rare type of tumor called diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG), she asked social-media users to send Emma letters and dog photos. The response has been incredible.
Initially, about a dozen friends sent pictures of their dogs to Emma, but the social-media post was shared over and over, and before long, Emma received 100,000 dog love letters, her father Geoff told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
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