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Delivering Dreams

When police officer Bill Sample heard about a 7-year-old boy suffering from leukemia at a Philadelphia hospital, he gave the youngster's parents $1,900 to take their son on a trip to the mountains. There, the boy would get a chance to see snow for the first time before he died.

Since then, the Sunshine Foundation, a Feasterville, Pa., charity founded by Mr. Sample in 1976, has...

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