This is how some Omaha fifth-graders spent their snow day.

They made some signs. They bundled up. They rode down Dodge Street.

And when they piled out of minivans and SUVs, they ran onto the front lawn of Children's Hospital & Medical Center.

Into the snow.

They plopped onto their backs, eyes on the sixth-floor hospital room of their classmate Lauren.

Then they furiously whipped their arms up and down and their legs back and forth in an effort to will Lauren Hacker back to her seat in Miss Johns' classroom at St. Margaret Mary Catholic School.

They spread their angel wings in the snow and sent their angel thoughts up to where Lauren stood, watching.

Lauren — “Lolo” to her friends — was just a regular kid until one December day.

On Dec. 12, she became a kid with cancer: acute myelocytic leukemia, subtype monoblastic.

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