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“In October 1993, when muscular dystrophy was eating DTC away at 11-year-old Joshua Torres, the Havre de Grace boy made a deathbed wish to see the musician Tupac Shakur.

His mother phoned a radio station in the hope it could help her reach the rap star. Not only did Mr. Shakur call back, he arrived by jet within hours to visit the family’s residence on the Aberdeen Proving Ground army base.

The meeting was private: no television cameras; no live broadcast by the radio station that had helped set up the meeting. Shakur spent 30 to 40 minutes with Joshua. He held Joshua’s hand, talked to him, cried with him. Then, he was gone, and within two hours, Joshua was dead.

“Joshua was very weak, but he smiled for him and quoted some of his lyrics,” Mrs. Torres said.

“When I told him Josh passed away, he was like, ‘Aw, man.’ He was pretty emotional,” says Sgt. Abdul-Hakim Torres, Joshua’s father. “I was really shocked that he stopped what he was doing, got in the jet and came down here to visit my son. Just like that, Bang! It happened.”

“No one can ever know the other side of Tupac. He sat with my son at his bed and cried for 45 minutes,” recalled Sgt. Abdul-Hakim Torres

                                                             

(Source: articles.baltimoresun.com)