At just six months old, Nguyet had a giant facial tumor that covered more than half her face, and her mother, Lam, often covered her to protect her from horrified looks in their Vietnamese village. Everything changed when retired flight attendant Patti Maxey saw her photo in Alabama and launched a fundraising campaign to save her. With help from the nonprofit Mending Kids, Nguyet and her mother traveled 14,000 kilometers to Madrid, where surgeons at Gregorio Mara\u00f1\u00f3n Hospital performed four delicate operations to reconstruct her eyelids, nose, lips, and cheek. Today, Nguyet is more outgoing, plays with other children, and no longer faces the same fearful reactions. A little girl once hidden from the world can finally show her face with confidence, thanks to the kindness of strangers….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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