The Real Slim Shady can be a really nice guy when the chips are down.
Gage Garmo, 17, got to meet Eminem Sunday evening, fulfilling a wish he had. The Rochester Hills, Michigan, teen died Monday.
The
rapper, whose real name is Marshall Mathers, made a surprise visit to
Garmo's house Sunday, spending the time chatting about football and
school.
We're really happy we were able to make it happen," Mary Grace McCarter, executive director of The Rainbow Connection, told the Oakland Press, a suburban Detroit newspaper. The Rainbow Connection is a Michigan-based organization for children with life-threatening illnesses. "It was really something special."
According
to the paper, Garmo had been diagnosed with bone cancer as a freshman
in high school in 2010. His leg was amputated in a measure to stop the
disease, but it recurred and spread to his lungs.
Garmo was remembered at a candlelight vigil Monday night that hundreds attended.
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