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Grab a tissue.

Southern California girl gets dying wish to see movie 'Up' Associated Press Posted: 06/19/2009 09:16:59 AM PDT Updated: 06/19/2009 09:18:28 AM PDT HUNTINGTON BEACH — A 10-year-old Southern California girl has died after getting her last wish: to see the movie "Up." Colby Curtin of Huntington Beach had advanced vascular cancer and couldn't watch the Disney-Pixar movie in a theater. Her mother says Colby desperately wanted to see the animated film about a man who flies off in his house to fulfill a dream after his wife's death. A friend managed to contact Pixar, and on June 10 a company employee arrived with a DVD copy at Colby's house. Colby's mother says she asked her daughter if she could hang on until it arrived. The girl said she was ready to die but added: "I'm going to wait for the movie." By then, Colby couldn't open her eyes but her mother described the scenes. Colby died that night. If you are not in tears you are a sad, cold