This 6-year-old Make-A-Wish winner gave Tom Brady the most innocent, thoughtful gift
It really is the thought that counts
In a single NFL season, Tom Brady makes more money than most of us will see in our entire lives, but he was touched to receive $10 from a fan recently. Not because he needs a ten-piece, really, but because of the story behind the boy who gave it to him.
6-year-old Gabriel Aljalian, who fought a long, hard battle with leukemia, won a visit with the Patriots through the Make-A-Wish foundation. The major Pats fan threw aball around with Tom Brady and the team last weekend, just days after the three-year anniversary of his initial diagnosis, Uproxx reports.
But wait. There’s more heart-melting goodness to this story.
Each year on November 3 (the date of his first diagnoisis with leukemia), Aljalian, his friends, and his family celebrate Gabriel’s Day of Kindness, where they do good deeds in order to “celebrate Gabriel’’ and share their gratitude, according to the “holiday’s’’ official Facebook page. So Aljalian gave Tom Brady, whose net worth is $27 million, a card with a $10 bill in it to be kind and express his thanks. And if you don’t think that’s the sweetest thing you’ve ever heard, you’re wrong.
Aljalian, originally from Watertown, also made cards for the homeless and handed them out in Harvard Square last week as a part of his Day of Kindness. His gesture towards Brady was just an extention of that. According to a Facebook post about the Make-A-Wish visit, “Gabriel also wanted to do something nice for Tom Brady for playing football with him.’’
Fortunately, Brady accepted Aljalian’s gift, which is good, since Aljalian would have been “devastated’’ had the QB turned it down.
Kids do the darnest things. Brady appreciated it, though–he reportedly bent down and gave Aljalian a big hug after recieving his card. It’s all about the gesture, after all.
“Indeed, no act of kindness–towards anyone, however large or small–is ever wasted,’’ the Facebook post reads.
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