Six-year-old superhero

[serenissima]

This is cute.

AP: Idaho girl becomes superhero for a day

Boise, Idaho - Most days, 6-year-old Aubrey Matthews spends her energy fighting a brain tumor growing behind her eyes. But the first-grader managed to foil crimes and chase an arch-nemesis through Boise on Friday, serving the city as the superhero "Star" with assistance from the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Idaho, The Idaho Statesman reported.

When she donned her blue and metallic superhero costume, Star took on the super-powers of X-ray vision, superhuman strength, speed and blowing power — and a mission: To capture the villain who had stolen a golden star from the Idaho Historical Museum.
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Before catching the bad guy, she rescued people from a "smoke"-filled building, saved a citizen from drowning in ParkCenter Pond, and vindicated ferrets at Zoo Boise who had been framed for stealing the golden star.

It was a busy day for Aubrey, a little girl with an incredible imagination whose biggest foe is the inoperable optic glioma tumor growing in the center of her brain. The tumor was diagnosed when Aubrey was 6 months old.
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Most kids making a wish through the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Idaho wish to go someplace, to meet someone or to have something special.

Aubrey's request — to "be" something — is the rarest kind of wish, said executive director Marcia Karakas. It's the first time in at least 10 years that a "be" wish has been received in the Idaho office, which serves the state's lower 35 counties.
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Aubrey came up with other superhero characters to help her fight crime — Lion Lady, Frog Lady, Dog Man, House Lifter, Sky Girl, Martian Manhunter and Tree Girl — all played by volunteers. She also helped design the costumes.
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I wonder what the previous "be" wish was? It's an interesting point, that most people dream of having things or doing things rather than being something.

Comments

[copperwolf.livejournal.com]

Holy shamoly! I am shocked! Good to hear from you again! I didn't think you were the type to join up, but a year ago I didn't think he was either.

I actually lost (or have stored on Zip disk, which is almost the same) most of my old website material when I got a new computer, and recently recovered that Clearing sketch from the Internet wayback machine.

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