#TheMoment a class brought grad celebrations to a hospital in another province
Lauchlan McCabe and his mother recount the moment his Grade 9 class travelled 230 kilometres from rural P.E.I. to a children's hospital in Halifax so he could celebrate the end of junior high while being treated for leukemia.
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