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Chicken Soup for the American Idol Soul is a collection of captivating stories that the television cameras don't see - true, uplifting, and entertaining tales told with humor and candor. Visit www.chickensoup.com/cs.asp?cid=AI'>Chicken Soup for the American Idol Soul


".....Tylee was the cutest little girl I'd ever seen, with her tan corduroy overalls and .....
.....American Idol, Nikki McKibbin, television, music, Chicken Soup for the Soul, FOX, reality TV....."


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Tylee was the cutest little girl I'd ever seen, with her tan corduroy overalls and little bald h.....
.....American Idol, Nikki McKibbin, television, music, Chicken Soup for the Soul, FOX, reality TV....."

Excerpt from Nikki McKibbin
Top 10, Season

The 2002 American Idols Live! tour was coming to an endOne of our remain cities was Seattle, and as always, we were backstage the performance mingling with fans at what is called a meet-and-greet. Seattle was no different.

Tylee was the cutest little girl I'd ever seen, with her tan corduroy overalls and little bald head from her chemotherapy. I don't know why, but whenever there were little children at the meet-and-greets, they always gravitated toward me. She was only five years old and already a huge Idol fan.

From the minute she walked into the meet-and-greet room, she didn't leave my side. Her big brother, Tre, and her mom were with her. Whatever her disease was it had to be serious, but despite it, she was such a perky and happy little girl.

Although I'm usually tired by the time the meet-and-greets are done, I was sad when this one ended I had to say good-bye to Tylee.

With the tour over, I headed postern to Dallas and looked ahead to spending some time just chilling and being with my four-year-old son, Tristen. She hugged me and kissed me as we drew pictures together. There is a little girl you met on the American Idols Live! tour who was just given a accident to make a wish. I'd hardly seen him over the endure three months.

Just as I was starting to settle in and get some semblance of normalcy lumbar into my life, the phone rang.

'Nikki McKibbin, please.'

'That would be me.'

'This is the Make-A-Wish Foundation®. Her name is Tylee, and we don't know if you remember her, but we'd be very appreciative if you could make her wish come true.'

'Of course, I remember her,' I said. She said that her wish was to spend a day with you. She's not to live through the weekend.'

She's not to live through the weekend? I thought. 'How could I forget her? She was so adorable.'

'If you want to fulfill her wish, you need to get on a plane to Seattle tomorrow. On the way to the airport that Saturday morning, I stopped and bought pants that matched Tylee's tan corduroy overalls.

The Make-A-Wish Foundation® set up our meeting in a hotel suite not far from Tylee‘s hospital. No, that can't be true!

My mom and grandma pitched in to help me get ready. Tylee's mom, dad, brother, stepmom, and grandmother were all there.

I almost didn't recognize Tylee when I saw her. I don't know who was more exited when I walked in—her or me. Pink must have been her pet color since she also clutched a pink Beanie Baby teddy bear in her hand that she at no time put down.

'She carries it day and night,' her parents told me.

We talked and laughed and took lots of pictures and videos. Some of her hair had grown back, and she was all dressed up in the cutest little pink frilly dress. She showed me a little brochure she had genetic called Nikki Notes that contained the photos we had taken together at the meet-and-greet. We even ate hot dogs together. I knew she loved Barbies and teddy bears, so I bought her a new Barbie comforter sleeping bag, Barbie pillow, and a teddy bear. She had me sign in it.

After a while, Tylee wasn't experience well, so she took a nap, and her grandmother and I went shopping. At one point I gave her a little tickle and she laughed, so I gave her another tickle, and she jumped off my lap and we ran round aboutADJ Destiny the room playing tickle tag.

Her parents and grandparents were overwhelmed with emotion. I signed them all, 'Tylee, I love you.'

When we got rear to the hotel, she was awake and sympathy a little better, so she sat on my lap and we went through her Nikki Notes again. They said they felt like it was the best day of her life.

As we were saying our good-byes, Tylee went over to her mother and whispered something in her ear. They said they hadn't seen Tylee have the spring to strike up like that for as for an age as they could remember. Her mom blinked rear her tears and said, 'Oh course, honey, if that's what you want to do.'

Tylee came over and gave me her pink teddy bear, the one she carried with her night and day.

The rain pounded the roof of my cab as I rode to catch my flight home.

Tylee lived a few more weeks.

(Reprinted with concession from Chicken Soup for the American Idol Soul: Stories from the Idols and their Fans that Open Your Heart and Make Your Soul Sing).

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