Emanuelly is 5 years old and cried as if she had been given the whole world.
Her father, Antônio Carlos, a bricklayer from Anápolis, Brazil, left for work before she woke up and did not get the chance to wish her a happy birthday. When his shift ended, he looked for a birthday cake with the 80 reais he had in his pocket. He could not find a whole one, only a single slice at a bakery. “I thought: I’ll take this one”, he said. When he gave it to her, the girl burst into tears of pure emotion, not caring about its size.
Her mother, Larissa Cristina, recorded the scene and uploaded it to social media. The video reached 20 million views and moved Father Fábio de Melo, Simone and Simaria, and Solange Almeida. So many people offered to help that the Beauty and the Beast-themed party, which had already been planned to fulfill a family promise, ended up being much bigger than the family imagined.