Credit : Renee Stengel Photography I wish to be a mermaid Emma, 9 | Pinehurst leukemia
E M MA’ S WIS H TO B E A M E RMAID
A Donor’s Impact Makes a Splash Emma is an active 9-year-old girl from
adventure and looked forward to swimming
Pinehurst, NC who enjoys swimming and
in her very own mermaid tail. Emma even
playing outside. Emma also has leukemia.
practiced swimming with her legs together
Whenever Emma goes swimming, she dives
so she would be ready to swim in her tail
down deep into the water and imagines a
when her wish day arrived.
magical world where she can swim with her very own pink and purple mermaid tail. This world offers Emma an escape from her day-to-day life, full of endless doctor’s appointments and treatments. When asked what she wanted her wish to be, Emma excitedly declared that she wished to be a mermaid! She imagined a day filled with
In the effort to create Emma’s perfect wish, Make-A-Wish reached out to a long-time donor, Robin Smith-Salzman, for help. “I got a call that said, ‘Can we do a mermaid party for a wish kid at your house? We think you have a pool.’ And I said I’d be thrilled to help in any way that I could.”
Emma posing in her mermaid tail by the pool
