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How a celebrity cleft palate dog made a boy's dream of meeting the Eagles come true

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On Christmas Eve, 10-year-old Giovanni Hamilton of Williamsport received an important call — not from the jolly man in red, but from some booming boys in green: The Philadelphia Eagles.

Over a video conference, members of the team, including Giovanni’s hero, quarterback Carson Wentz, invited him to be their guest at the Eagles’ New Year’s Eve game against the Cowboys. Giovanni waited until he hung up the phone before sobbing tears of joy. His dream of seeing the Eagles play live was finally going to come true, said his mother, Shannon Algarin.

“I can’t tell you how many times we’ve driven by the Linc and just wished,” Algarin said.