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| 6/08/2012 Update on Mackenzie |
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On the sad side--Mackenzie Macarter--the girl
for whom my daughter Alexandra made the dollhouse a few years ago has
had her Leukemia returned. She is unfortunately one of the 20% who have
this type in who it reappears. She is back to having chemotherapy & is
losing the sight in one eye. This is all very hard for an 8 year old
child. But we have hope--so far the treatment is working as well as can
be expected. Mandi Burt
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9/15/2009
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Maryland Teen Builds Dollhouse for Girl with Leukemia |
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While attending the Frederick Fall Miniature Fair at the Holiday Inn in Frederick, Maryland in October, 2008, teenager Alexandra Burt from Hagerstown, Maryland and her mother, Amanda, purchased a marked down dollhouse kit from vender Grace Shaw of Virtual Dollhouse |
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Grace had had the Coventry Cottage dollhouse kit, by Greenleaf, for some time and had not sold it on her website (http://www.virtualdollhouse.net). Planning to be a vender at the Frederick Fall Miniature Fair, Grace took the dollhouse with her hoping to find a home for it. Towards the end of the show, she marked it down hoping not to have to transport it back home again. |
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Alexandra (Alex) & her mother, who had made several previous purchases from Virtual Dollhouse, came back for one last look. Seeing the dollhouse was marked down, Alex asked her mother if they could purchase it for their neighbor, Mackenzie McCarter, a little girl who has Leukemia. (http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/mackenziemccarter) Alex assured her mother that she, herself, would build the house for the neighbor's child. |
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Amanda was thinking, "Great, another kit sitting around my house for six months." She did help Alex buy the kit though. |
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In January, Grace received an e-mail from Alex with photos of the finished Coventry Cottage. "She did a wonderful job of building this house," says Grace. |
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"This is the sort of thing that our teenagers should be honored for." Grace contacted the Helen Sparks, one of our NAME representatives to see if we could put a story about Alex in the Tiny Tattler. |
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Amanda said that Alex had great fun
building the cottage for Mackenzie. She wanted to hang photos on the wall
and chose Alice in Wonderland pictures to frame and hang. |
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Alex gave the completed dollhouse to Mackenzie on January 26, 2009. Little Mackenzie had just had a chemo treatment as was feeling shy so her photos didn't come out as well as we'd hoped. However, her mother said that as soon as Alex and Amanda left, Mackenzie got up from the sofa where she was resting, and raced right over to play with it. |
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If you would like to help children like Mackenzie, contact http://www.CaringBridge.org |
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Interior of the dollhouse. |
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Mackenzie McCarter Receiving the dollhouse |
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