What should have been a day filled with balloons, cake, and the kind of laughter only a child can create instead collapsed into a nightmare no parent should ever have to live through. A Florida family woke up ready to celebrate their little girl’s birthday — a day she’d been counting down to with bright-eyed excitement — and ended it with a silence so heavy it nearly swallowed the house whole. One moment she was grinning, strapped into a ride she’d begged to try, and in the next, everything familiar was ripped away. The kind of joy theme parks promise...
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