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Pitt Meadows boy opens gates to Disneyland

Cancer free after battle with lymphoma
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Six-year-old Linden Bradley of Pitt Meadows got to open the gates to Disneyland. (Contributed)

A Pitt Meadows boy who has beaten cancer got to open the gates to Disneyland.

Six-year-old Linden Bradley and his family got the keys to the Magic Kingdom, and was joined by Mickey Mouse as he swung the gates open to visitors last Friday.

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Linden is cancer free after a battle with stage four lymphoma that saw him hospitalized through four rounds of chemotherapy.

He was discharged in June, in time to start Grade 1, and for a trip to Disneyland through the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

“He’s been through more than I think any of us combined have been through,” said his mom, Julia Bradley, in a comment on the Disney Parks blog.

“Hopefully, this will be the memory that he remembers instead of all the bad times with cancer – he got to open Disneyland!”

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His wish was to go to Disneyland with his sister Keira and parents Julia and Graham for a week-long trip. He was given VIP treatment, and made the honourary mayor of the Haunted Mansion for a day.

His story was covered by Good Morning America and ABC News.

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About the Author: Neil Corbett

I have been a journalist for more than 30 years, the past decade with the Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows News.
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