American Girl helps raise money for children living with cancer
American Girl helps raise money for children living with cancer
Standing on stage, smiling, and holding one of her favorite dolls, three-year-old Cora Dalik is in the survivor's Club.
"When she was 18 months old, she had some irregular bruising," said Heather Dalik, Cora's mom. "Within a couple days, we found out she had aplastic anemia, which is a bone marrow failure."
But now she's in front of hundreds at the Hippodrome, where a fashion show with American Girl dolls is raising money for the University of Maryland Children's Hospital and the Cool Kids Campaign, which helps children living with cancer feel like a kid.
"From the chemo and the transplant, she stopped walking, she stopped talking and she just was kind of there," said Dalik.
Olympic Figure Skater Kimmie Meissner is a spokesperson. The models look like their dolls and dress like their dolls but they do the walking and talking. They've pitched the program and together have raised $50,000 for the second annual event.
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