Local boy with cancer turns into a superhero for a day
Thursday was shaping up to be just another school day for 13-year-old Erik Martin, but then something extraordinary happened: Spiderman called.
Spiderman happens to be one of the few people who knows that Erik, too, has a secret identity — he’s Electron Boy, a superhero who fights the powers of evil with light.
And Spiderman needed Erik’s help.
Erik, who is living with liver cancer, has always wanted to be a superhero. On Thursday, the regional chapter of the Make-A-Wish Foundation granted him that wish with an elaborate event that involved hundreds of volunteers in Bellevue and Seattle.
Good thing the evildoers did not know his weakness is a magnetic field, which will limit his orientation options.
Society avidly pours money into any sodden hole as long as it does not aid the able. Global deformed decisions arising from reality deficit disorder birth a future overflowing with bad luck. A fella named Alaric with a hankering for eat-in pizza was a Roman instance of bad luck 0n 24 August 410. America is long overdue for its own compassionate forensic audit.
What has that got to do with Electon Boy?