I'll always remember!

'Dear Princess Kate. My name is Diamond Ann. I am six. I was named after Princess Diana. My Mommy Memory is in heaven with her. I have cancer. I spend a lot of time at the hospital. I watched you get married from my bed there. You looked pretty. I like playing Princess dress up. My favourite princess is Aurora. Who is yours? I would really like to meet you. Do you wait to meet me too? '

Little Diamond Marshall’s story is one of the most touching stories I found on the web. Last February the six year old girl was diagnosed with stage four undifferentiated sarcoma, a very rare childhood cancer that affects the body's soft connective tissues. Her mom Memory(32) died in another form of cancer four years ago and the girl was undergoing surgery and chemotherapy as treatment. As any average kid she had her dream, to meet her dream fairy princess Aurora. But with her stage of cancer she wasn’t able to pay a visit to the Disneyland.

Along with million other people she watched the wedding of the century, the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton. She was looking fabulously charming that Diamond couldn’t help wondering that she was just like the princess in her dreams. The girl was yearning to meet her when her thoughts were lightened by the news of the royal couple's tour in Canada. She wrote the touching letter above to the Duchess of Cambridge hoping her dream come true. Her dad, Lyall and step mother Daniel Marshall wrote to "Children’s wish foundation" in Canada seeking a way to make her wish come true. And so did it when she was chosen to present a bouquet of flowers to the Duchess of Cambridge as she arrived in Calgary.

The overjoyed girl flung to hug the Duchess instead of passing across the bouquet much to her delight. Diamond also presented a heart-shaped trinket box, containing a friendship bracelet she had made for the Duchess herself. After her meeting with the Royal couple, Diamond said: 'She told me she liked the flowers a lot. 'She was as fancy as she looks on the TV.'

Diamond was very lucky I’d say. That’s because there are so many who suffer from cancer almost in every nook and corner of the world but only a very few of them have their wishes granted.

P.S. Here's something we Sri Lankans can contribute to: Trail - A journey by the living. For life! May be it will bring a smile to the sweet little faces of many Sri lankan Diamonds!