Our Family Was Flying on a Make-a-Wish Trip for My Ill Son – Halfway Through the Flight, the Pilot Said, ‘Mike, There’s One Thing About This Trip That You and Your Parents Know Nothing About’

the window as the airplane taxied toward the runway.

“Dad…”

“Are we really going to see Mickey Mouse?”

I swallowed the lump in my throat.

“You bet we are.”

He held up the small autograph book the Make-A-Wish volunteers had mailed him weeks earlier.

“I’m gonna get everyone’s signature.”

“Even Goofy’s?”

“Especially Goofy’s.”

The passengers around us chuckled continue reading …