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Delaware Police Help Victoria Marsh, Girl With Cancer, Meet Taylor Swift

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*Update at bottom of story.

One police department is helping to make a teenager’s dreams come true.

Victoria Marsh is a 13-year-old from Delaware who loves Taylor Swift. Victoria also has Down syndrome and was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a form of bone cancer, in December, according to the Dover Police Department. In February, she had to have the lower half of her left leg amputated.

The Dover Police Department got national attention in January when a video of one of its officers doing a lip sync to Swift’s “Shake It Off” went viral. After Swift saw the video, she sent tickets for her June concert in Philadelphia to the police department, Fox News reported.

Hearing of Victoria’s love for Swift and wanting to lift her spirits, the police department offered her the tickets. However, the teen will be unable to attend because of her cancer treatment.

Now, the police department is trying to get Swift’s attention in the hopes that she’ll meet or FaceTime with Victoria. They helped create the hashtags #TeamVictoria and #SwiftAWish, as well as the video below.

Update: The campaign worked, and on Saturday night, June 13, Swift met with Victoria in person before her concert at Lincoln Financial Field, according to the Dover Police Department Twitter account.

Originally published: May 22, 2015
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