(Left to right) Back to the Future writer Bob Gale with actors Mary Steenburgen, Christopher Lloyd and Michael J. Fox at Fan Expo for a panel discussion of the original film's 40th anniversary in Toronto, on August 22.

Kim Flores, 41, wearing a puffy red vest, Nike sneakers and ’80s era denim-on-denim, became teary-eyed when Michael J. Fox took the stage alongside his Back to the Future co-stars at the 40th anniversary celebration of the film at Toronto’s FanExpo.

“It’s like a dream come true,” she said, joining 2,500 people in attendance Friday at the sold-out Metro Toronto Convention Centre in giving the 64-year-old Canadian actor publicly battling Parkinson’s disease a standing ovation.

“What he’s gone through and continues to go through is an inspiration, and I’m inspired by how

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