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Jamie Lee Curtis inspired to help children in need after encounter with young sick child

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Jamie Lee Curtis was inspired to help children in need when she met a 12-year-old girl who needed a heart transplant. The 62-year-old actress met Lori Tull in 1983 when she attended a fundraiser that was being thrown for the youngster in Pontiac, Illinois, where Jamie was filming a movie.

Lori had one of the first successful heart transplants at the age of 12 but sadly passed away when she was 20, and at the time of her death, Jamie asked Sony to donate VCRs to Children's Hospital Pittsburgh so the patients could watch movies and she donated a movie library in Lori’s name.

And Jamie has now admitted Lori’s story inspired her to do more to help sick children by teaming up with Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, for whom she has been an.

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