In 2011, Brenda Schmitz, a woman suffering from ovarian cancer, asked a radio station for wish. Now, two years later, that wish has moved the community of Des Moines in Iowa, and hundreds around the world.
Two years ago, Schmitz was diagnosed with stage-four ovarian cancer, and she suddenly realized she only had a few months to live and would leave her husband and four children heartbroken.
A month before losing the battle against her disease, the woman wrote a letter to the radio show "Christmas Wish", by Iowa Star 102.5, a show that fulfills the Christmas wishes of the audience, and asked a friend to keep the letter a secret until the day where her husband, David, found a new girlfriend.
That day arrived two years later on September 2013 when David asked his girlfriend, Jayne Abraham, to marry him. When he heard the news, the friend Brenda had given the letter to decided it was time to deliver the letter to the local radio show.
The reply couldn't be more moving. In the letter written to her husband two years ago, Brenda asked "Christmas Wish" three wishes that have surprised hundreds of people around the world. The woman asked for a massage for David's new wife, a "magical trip" so the new family could create new memories and an award for the team of doctors and nurses that treated her at the Mercy Medical Center.
"About a week ago, an anonymous letter was sent to the Christ Wish show on Star 102.5. We've fulfilled these Christmas wishes for over 20 years and I've never read a letter like Brenda's. Everyone, no matter their age, was moved," said Scott Allen, the station's director, according to CNN.
When David received a call from the station, friends and station staff told him as little as possible so that when he read Brenda's letter it would be more special. According to ABC on its website, the family won a trip to Disney World with all expenses paid, and a full day of pampering for David's new wife.
"The reason I write is this: I have a wish. I have a wish for David, the children and the woman and her family if she also has children. I want you to know I love you very much," Brenda wrote.
You can watch the touching moment when David reads her wife's letter here:
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