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The Pickup Game

A boy facing challenging obstacles, finds himself the star of a special pick-up game On Christmas Eve, the limousine driver pulled up to the Independence Events Center and parked, telling the Hibbeler family that he needed to make a brief stop from their sight-seeing tour. Sixteen-year-old Nick Hibbeler didn’t care. This limo ride was the […]

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Santa and the Superheroes

A five-year-old boy saves Christmas from the dark side No doubt, the security guards at Children’s Mercy Hospital have seen a lot of strange things. But never had they witnessed a Christmas Eve visitors’ list like this. Some might call it the not-so-silent night of Holy Superheroes, Batman! all for one special little boy. That

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The Time Traveler

The mission began inside a black limousine. Leather seats, high-tech lighting, a Bose speaker system. Below a shelf of glass goblets — “Is that a bar?”— Kathy Harris discovered a lift-off compartment with iced-down soft drinks, including Dr. Pepper, her sonʼs favorite. “Tommy, do you want some?ʼ she asked her 13-year-old. He nodded, almost laughing.

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Little Surfer Dude

A little boy wants to see the ocean, before he can no longer see Tadan Foss is a boy made for the beach. Like the ocean, his 4-year-old smile is big and wide, beautiful and bountiful. Like surfer dudes, he likes his locks long and refuses haircuts. He is like numerous children you have seen

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A Story of Hope

A brilliant young girl helps inspire a new generation Seated at the head table in the Kauffman Foundation’s conference center, 17-year-old Hope Corwin finally understood her Christmas gift. There she was, one of 209 high school girls at the Hope Summit, listening to superstar scientists, mathematicians, engineers and entrepreneurs. All the speakers were women. Women

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Let It Snow

All a nine-year-old boy suffering from cancer wanted for Christmas was snow When the chemo started and nurses told 9-year-old Mason Kempf to think of something happy, he thought about snow. Even though the outside breezes were soft and warm and the tree’s leaves green as he lay this summer in the hospital bed at

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