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GA boy gets ‘wish’ of a lifetime, brought up on stage to sing ‘Fast Car’ with Luke Combs

By WSBTV.com News Staff
Copper Massengill and Luke Combs Cooper and his family were flown to Boston where they got to see Combs over the weekend at Gillette Stadium. When it got time for the country to sing his new hit cover of Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car,” he called up Cooper to come sing with him. (PHOTO: Make-A-Wish Georgia)
By WSBTV.com News Staff

ATLANTA — It was the moment of a lifetime for one Georgia boy.

Copper Massengill, 8, of Columbus, has been fighting a battle with leukemia since he was diagnosed at the age of 3.

“I had gone through a lot of stuff, a lot of surgeries,” Cooper told CBS Boston.

For his parents, the road has been just as long.

“It was a lot. To watch your child, go through what he had to go through was unbelievable,” his mother Melissa Massengill told the TV station.

When the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Georgia caught wind of Cooper’s journey, they knew they wanted to do something special for him.

Cooper’s favorite singer is Luke Combs. So the organization set up the surprise of a lifetime, a chance to meet his favorite singer. And there was more.

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Cooper and his family were flown to Boston where they got to see Combs over the weekend at Gillette Stadium. When it got time for the country to sing his new hit cover of Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car,” he called up Cooper to come sing with him.

He had no idea that he was going to go on stage. His secret wish, within his wish, was to sing ‘Fast Car’ with him. And Luke Combs and his team made a lifetime memory for him,” Sean Holleran, the CEO of Make-A-Wish Massachusetts and Rhode Island, told CBS Boston.

After the song, the entire stadium chanted Cooper’s name, the TV station reported.

“Cooper’s wish ended up being so perfect! Hearing 65,000 people chant his name as he took the stage at the Luke Combs concert is something he’ll never forget,” Make-A-Wish Georgia said in a Tweet on Wednesday.

Fighting back tears, the family told the TV station they couldn’t be more grateful.

“It was great to see him get the wish he wanted after going through everything,” said Travis Massengill, Cooper’s father.

“I was just amazed they could organize all that for him,” Melissa Massengill said.

Got Cooper, it will be an experience he will never forget.

“Everybody doesn’t get a wish and be grateful if you get a wish,” Cooper told CBS Boston.

Watch his story here.

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