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She joined the Orange Krush, made friends with the new AD, posed for photos with John Groce and got a standing ovation inside State Farm Center.

By late Sunday night, 10-year-old Allie Mathon was both tired and talked about.

“She whispered into my ear: ‘TJ, I think I’m famous,” said TJ Hodges, who helped make it all possible. “That’s when I knew how important the night was to her.”

Allie is a fifth-grader from Chatham but doesn’t go to school much these days. Taking on bone cancer eats up much of her time — and restricts much of her access — since the disease was detected late in 2015.