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Ariana Grandeserved as a real-life Santa to sick children across Manchester, England this Christmas.
The “Positions” singer, 29, donated gifts to kids being treated at the city’s hospitals and drew huge thanks from healthcare workers.
“Thank you Ariana,” the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital posted on Twitter Monday alongside photos of Santa and candy cane-themed wrapped gifts. “We were so excited to receive Christmas gifts for young patients across our hospitals fromAriana Grande.”
Along with RMCH, the gifts “were distributed to babies, children and teenagers” at Trafford Hospitals, Wythenshawe Hospital and North Manchester General Hospital, the facility added.
Grande is tragically tied to Manchester and its hospitals as a result of the May 22, 2017 suicide bombing at her concert, whichkilled 22 peopleand injured more than 500.
“Although grief is ever-present and our relationship to it is constantly evolving and expressing itself in different ways every day, year round…. I know that this anniversary will never be an easy one. Please know that I am thinking of you today,” she wrote.
Grande also shared a heartfelt note ahead of the tragedy’s three-year anniversary in May 2020.
“I want to take a moment to acknowledge and send my love to everyone that is feeling the sadness and tremendous heaviness of the anniversary coming up this week,” Grande shared on her Instagram Stories.
Ariana Grande’s Instagram tribute ahead of the 3rd anniversary of the Manchester bombing.Ariana Grande/Instagram
Months after the 2017 terror attack, Grande explained to fans that the life-changing tragedy taught her resilience and not to take life for granted.
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“The people of Manchester were able to change an event that portrayed the worst of humanity into one that portrayed the most beautiful of humanity. ‘Like a handprint on my heart’… I think of Manchester constantly and will carry this with me every day for the rest of my life,” Grande added.
source: people.com
