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"    Post by Jeremiah Heaton.   It&amp;#039;s a familiar scene: Your daughter stands above her &amp;quot;kingdom&amp;quot; of the living room in her best fluffy pink dress and plastic tiara, asking you to play princess. You agree\u2014but that&amp;#039;s as close as most kids ever come to being royalty. Not so for Emily Heaton, whose dad Jeremiah, took the 7-year-old&amp;#039;s wish to become a princess to the extreme. &amp;quot;As a parent, you sometimes go down paths you never thought you would,&amp;quot; Heaton told The Washington Post. And that&amp;#039;s exactly how he ended up traveling to Africa to find an unclaimed 800-square-mile patch of desert where he planted a flag\u2014designed by Emily and her two siblings\u2014on what they call the &amp;quot;Kingdom of North Sudan.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;I wanted to show my kids I will literally go to the ends of the earth to make their wishes and dreams come true,&amp;quot; Heaton said. As parents, we all hope to do that, which is why we think Heaton&amp;#039;s intentions were nothing but good. However, in this case, a trip to the toy store for a new sparkly wand might been more appropriate.    Post by Jeremiah Heaton.   [Via The Washington Post] RelatedStar Dads We Love6 Famous Dads Share Their Messages to Their Kids&amp;quot;I Knew I Was a Dad When...&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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