Plus, Akron, New York, is a small town the wedding couple quickly got the family’s contact information.Įven that is an “AWickins was sure to get the mother’s permission to share the photos online, starting the second wave of viral sharing. Well, I already gave it away since I’ve told you the little Buttercup’s name, and the mother’s name. Well, an appeal to help a little girl? Naturally the story spread quickly online. Caleb’s mother, Angela Spark, started the online sensation by posting the story on Facebook, about how the girl “told Olivia she was beautiful and wanted to touch her dress.” And, she said, “Olivia and Caleb would like to find this mother and her daughter so that they can give her some photos from yesterday for this little girl to keep.” To make it even more perfect for an online viral sensation, there was a little mystery, too: this all happened quickly enough that neither the bride nor the photographer got the girl’s name. I have one of the photos on the Show Page if you missed all of the 30-million online postings, though that’s probably …inconceivable. It’s enough to make a Marine drill sergeant choke up and say, “I’m not crying! You’re crying!”Īnd yes, photographer Nicole Wickins shot photos of the encounter between the little girl and the princess bride, and even a short video, which really made the encounter a perfect online viral sensation. Even that part is sweet: Olivia told the girl that they had to get to the ball! The mother said, “She watched them drive away and just kept saying, ‘bye Cinderella, have fun at the ball!’” Of course the moment had to end - the couple had guests waiting. “She was just so sweet with her,” said the mother, “and just kept talking to her and asking her questions.
It isn’t clear whether she knew right away the 5-year-old was autistic or not, and it doesn’t really matter: it was clear the girl was having a magical moment, and Olivia thought quickly on her feet. Olivia took time out from the photo session to talk to the little girl who thought she had to be a Disney princess. The man in the nice suit? Well obviously, that was Prince Charming! Of course, the girl also saw the princess’s entourage - her wedding party - and figured one bridesmaid was Ariel, and another was Belle, her mother said. “She just goes running over, arms wide open,” said her mother, Jessica, yelling, “Cinderella! Cinderella!” Jessica said later that, “When she sees a princess, she’s going to love them because she loves princesses.” Mom says Layla knows of princesses from (where else?) Disney movies. But when Layla saw Olivia Spark in her wedding dress, she immediately knew who it was - definitely not a stranger.
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Layla is autistic, and her mother says she often doesn’t know how to interact with people, especially strangers. As the wedding party was posing for the various shots, someone else in the park noticed the commotion that Saturday afternoon: Layla Lester, a 5-year-old girl. There, Caleb and Olivia Spark had just gotten married, and they went to a park with a photographer for their wedding pictures. It happened in Akron, New York, a town of less than 3,000 people in the western part of the state between Rochester and Buffalo.
I’ll start with the details of what happened, including some you may not have seen in whatever writeup you happened to read, and then delve a little into what makes this a story of Uncommon Sense. If you frequent social media, you probably at least saw the tease for this story, and may well have clicked on it. I’m Randy Cassingham, welcome to Uncommon Sense. I’m going to tell you one of those stories that you might have seen recently, but then I’m going to look at it from another angle, using the Uncommon Sense filter to see what we can take away for the longer term, after the viral story is forgotten. In these acrimonious times, a feel-good story can easily go viral online, getting shared on social media, then sometimes even picked up in the news media, which is then shared on social media again. Yes, someone set up a GoFundMe to supposedly aid the girl, but see the first comment below: I’m very suspicious of the motives.There’s a reference at the end to Episode 2, which is worth a listen if you didn’t catch that one.To help support Uncommon Sense, see the Patron’s Page, or the form in the sidebar.How to Subscribe and List of All Episodes Show Notes The “princess bride” and the princess-loving girl. In This Episode: Feel-good stories can go viral online, but let’s apply the Uncommon Sense filter and see what we can take away long after the viral story is forgotten.
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