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Christmas comes early for terminally ill toddler

Posted at 9:54 AM, Sep 17, 2018
and last updated 2018-09-17 10:54:46-04

(WLWT) An Ohio neighborhood came together to celebrate Christmas early this weekend for a 2-year-old boy battling brain cancer.

Brody Allen’s story is going viral after people learned about his tumors and wanted to help him enjoy the time he has left.

“Seeing how his family is leaning on each other, they’re so compassionate with each other and it really struck me, hard,” Jim Perkins from Florence Elks Lodge said.

Neighbors of Brody and his family turned the street into winter wonderland, putting up lights to help 2-year-old celebrate early this year.

People from all over world have been sending their best wishes.

“There’s a bucket full of mail, and we got all of that this morning. The mailman used to never come down our street. He comes down our street now with his truck because he can’t carry all of the mail in his hands,” a family member said.

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