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Fifty-six-year-old Ken Powell, from New South Wales, Australia, has been fighting melanoma cancer for 14 years, but despite several surgeries and radiation treatment, his condition is reportedly terminal.

According to Yahoo News, one of Powell's dreams is to meet Dave Grohl, the frontman for Powell's favorite band, the Foo Fighters. He finally got his chance when the band toured Australia recently. He went to all six concerts in the hopes of meeting Grohl despite being very physically ill. Sadly, his hopes were crushed when a bout of food poisoning forced the musicians to cancel all meet-and-greets.

Then something kind of miraculous happened. His friend, Daniella Whitehead, a Qantas flight attendant, happened to be serving the Foo Fighters on their flight home and told Grohl about Ken's epic quest to meet him. Naturally, Grohl then posted a photo of himself with a piece of paper saying "Hi Ken" onto the Foo Fighters Facebook page, and sent Ken an autograph and VIP tickets to their show in Los Angeles in September.




Ken's daughter then set up a Facebook page and GoFundMe campaign, with the hopes of raising $20,000 to cover Ken's trip to LA, with the rest of the money going to melanoma research.
In just 12 days, the page exceeded its initial goal, and has now changed its target to $30,000.

Looks like Ken's heading to California.

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