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In 2017, a father in Sichuan, China, lay in a pit beside his two-year-old daughter, with a little dog nearby.
He had dug it as her grave. He could no longer afford her treatment.
Her name was Zhang Xinlei. At just two months old, she was diagnosed with severe thalassemia, a blood disorder that left her needing regular transfusions.
Her dad earned 2,500 yuan a month at a glass factory. In two years, the family had spent over 140,000 yuan on treatment.
Their savings were gone. They had borrowed from relatives and friends. It still wasn't enough.
He would lie beside her in the pit and look up at the sky.
He said he wanted the place to feel familiar, so that if she died, she might be less afraid.
It was a place where her dad had been beside her.
Her mother was pregnant again. The family hoped the baby's umbilical cord blood could help Xinlei.
When the images spread, people sent donations. Reports say government medical support also helped fund her care.
Her little sister was born in August 2017. The family saved her cord blood, and Xinlei later received a stem cell transplant using it.
Follow-up reports say her blood counts gradually returned to normal. She no longer needed monthly transfusions.
Later reports describe Xinlei in elementary school, enjoying drawing and dancing and doing well in class.
Her checkups were reportedly good, too.
The little girl in those photos had a life beyond that pit.
And the pit?
According to those reports, her family filled it in and planted sunflowers.
A place once prepared for goodbye, now filled with flowers.
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In 2017, a father in Sichuan, China, lay in a pit beside his two-year-old daughter, with a little dog nearby.
He had dug it as her grave. He could no longer afford her treatment.
Her name was Zhang Xinlei. At just two months old, she was diagnosed with severe thalassemia, a blood disorder that left her needing regular transfusions.
Her dad earned 2,500 yuan a month at a glass factory. In two years, the family had spent over 140,000 yuan on treatment.
Their savings were gone. They had borrowed from relatives and friends. It still wasn't enough.
He would lie beside her in the pit and look up at the sky.
He said he wanted the place to feel familiar, so that if she died, she might be less afraid.
It was a place where her dad had been beside her.
Her mother was pregnant again. The family hoped the baby's umbilical cord blood could help Xinlei.
When the images spread, people sent donations. Reports say government medical support also helped fund her care.
Her little sister was born in August 2017. The family saved her cord blood, and Xinlei later received a stem cell transplant using it.
Follow-up reports say her blood counts gradually returned to normal. She no longer needed monthly transfusions.
Later reports describe Xinlei in elementary school, enjoying drawing and dancing and doing well in class.
Her checkups were reportedly good, too.
The little girl in those photos had a life beyond that pit.
And the pit?
According to those reports, her family filled it in and planted sunflowers.
A place once prepared for goodbye, now filled with flowers.
