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“Wow!” cries Madison “Madi” Ambos, 7, when I call with the news.
The Sun Christmas Fund for Variety Village has raised a record-smashing, gob-smacking $75,508. So much for a COVID letdown.
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No small part of this success is thanks to Madi’s efforts as fund “chairkid” and chief cheerleader.
Sun readers have followed her progress past the pitfalls of cerebral palsy through four annual Yuletime drives, since she was three and seemed destined for a wheelchair.
Now, thanks to Variety Village and surgery in St. Louis, she gets by quite well on her own two feet.