Behind the controls of a hulking John Deere excavator, Nicholas Esposito clutched the lever, navigated the bucket claw into a mountain of dirt, and emptied it into a dump truck.
And he did it like a boss, which was exactly the role the 4-year-old assumed Friday afternoon at EDA Contractors in Bensalem.
Wearing a hard hat, orange vest and a fully stocked tool belt around his tiny waist, Nicholas was the big guy on the job.
Or, as owner of EDA Contractors Ed DeAngelis called him, the CEO.
Clearing a tear from beneath her eye and leaning into her husband s shoulder, Dana Esposito soaked in a moment that her son dreamed about his entire young life, but especially in the last two years as he battled a neuroblastoma, a rare form of cancer that took away his ability to walk for a while and nearly ended his life.
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