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The Orange County Register has a story about 10 year old Colby Curtin, who was diagnosed with vascular cancer. Colby enjoyed Pixar’s films quite a bit, and was looking forward to seeing Up in theaters. Unfortunately, she was much too ill to travel to a theater. Doctors told her mother she was fading fast.

A friend of the family began to cold call both Pixar and Disney. She was able to guess a name in order to talk to a real person via Pixar’s automated phone system. She got through to the right people and Pixar agreed to send someone out with a DVD screener the next day.

Pixar sent an employee (who is not mentioned by name) to Colby in the hospitol with a screener of the film and some Up memorabilia. Though she couldn’t see the movie (the pain kept her eyes closed during the film), her mother gave her a play by play of what was happening. When the film was over, her mother asked if she enjoyed the film. She nodded “yes”.

Colby died about seven hours later.

-Floyd Bishop