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Beyonce surprises cancer patient with FaceTime call

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Singer Beyonce Knowles used FaceTime to connect with a young cancer patient, Ebony Banks, after a social media campaign under the hashtag #EbobmeetsBeyonce grabbed her attention.

The Crazy In Love hit maker surprised the teenager with a video call on Wednesday. Ebony, whose lifelong dream has been to meet Beyonce, has been battling a rare form cancer.

Speaking to Khou channel about her last wish, Ebony, who is also known as Ebob, said, “She’s (Beyonce) like my everything and my idol. And if I ever met her, I would probably pass out.”

Beyoncé facetiming with Ebony, a fan with a rare cancer disease whose wish was to meet Beyoncé ——————————— Ebony Banks is a senior at Alief Hastings High School and a member of the color guard. A stage four diagnosis of cancer has kept Banks out of the classroom much of the year. In an effort to help make one of Banks’ biggest dreams come true, her friends have started using the hashtag #EBOBMEETSBEYONCE on social media. “(Banks) is a really big fan of (Beyonce) and she has so much love for her that we really want to get (Banks) to meet her,” said senior Cristal Depaz. “Beyonce is one of her idols. She admires her so much, so we’re trying to put that on Twitter and Instagram to get Beyonce’s attention,” said Gutierrez.

A post shared by Beyoncé (@beylite) on Mar 22, 2017 at 4:10pm PDT

Ebony’s high school classmate Shanya McKnight told local news site Khou, “We just decided she should, you know, meet Beyoncé. We started this hashtag to see how far we could get… Mostly, we tagged Beyonce we wanted to get her attention that Ebony wanted to meet her.”

After Ebony’s school friends made her last wish come true, they were absolutely ecstatic.

Beyonce learnt about Ebony’s dream to meet her through the latter’s school friends, who started the campaign on social media.

 

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