Make-A-Wish Foundation Turns San Francisco Into Gotham for 5-Year-Old Batkid

I'm not sure if you right coasters know anything about this but us left coasters are getting bombarded with it. News, social networks, emails, it's everywhere! That said, it's a very touching story that should warm anyone's heart.

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SAN FRANCISCO – Meet the Bay Area’s Caped Crusader. He’s five years old, likes to wear costumes, loves superheroes, and his secret identity is Miles. Since he was one, he has also been fighting leukemia. When the Make-A-Wish Foundation asked him what he wanted, he said his one wish was to fight crime, just like his hero Batman. So today, Miles — aka Batkid — got his wish when thousands of people showed up in San Francisco and turned it into Gotham City. First Miles rescued a “damsel in distress” from one of San Francisco’s – sorry, Gotham’s – famous cable cars. Then he stopped the Riddler from robbing a bank vault and chased down the Penguin after he apprehended the Giants’ mascot Lou Seal. Finally, he was awarded a key to the city by mayor Ed Lee. All the while thousands of fans cheered him on in the city streets and online. Miles is one of the scores of young people with life-threatening illnesses that the nonprofit Make-A-Wish Foundation grants a wish for each year. But while his request to become a superhero wasn’t entirely unheard of, the online response to it was. In fact, Patricia Wilson – the executive director of Make-A-Wish Greater Bay Area – said that in 15 years with her organization she’d never seen anything like it, and she grants some 350 wishes per year. “This wish has taken off and definitely taken me by surprise – we’re in the shock-and-awe part of this … it’s unprecedented,” Wilson said in an interview with WIRED on Thursday. “This is social media at its best.”

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