An 18-year-old Burns, Wyoming, girl with a rare heart disease has been given a Make-A-Wish Wyoming grant to go to New Zealand this November.

But as Blair Sanchez was at the ceremony to receive her wish, she listened to all the other stories of children with needs and Make-A-Wish dreams, and decided she needed to look beyond her own life.

“There were three or four other families there and I met all these kids. There was a 9-year-old that had brain cancer,” she said. “And they had this whole pamphlet of all the kids around Wyoming that were waiting for their wishes to be granted … from leukemia, cancer, to heart diseases, skin diseases to autoimmune diseases.”

As the teen read through the 32 or so names who remained without their wish, she turned to her mom and told her that she wanted to

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