Eight-year-old Laney Brown will never see Christmas again . Her doctors say leukemia will take her soon . Laney loves music . Loves to dance , loves Taylor Swift , loves Christmas carols . As her dying wishes , she asked to meet the country superstar and for some people to come by her house for a night of caroling , CNN affiliate WFMZ reported . On Friday -- her birthday -- Laney and Swift video chatted through FaceTime , a software application that allows callers to see each other on Apple products . Saturday night the singers came . At first it was hundreds of people , then thousands . Then it was 10,000 . They came to her home in West Reading , Pennsylvania , and even though she was too weak to go to the window , she heard the wonderful music . `` I can hear you now ! ! ! Love you ! '' she said through a photo her family posted to a Team Laney Facebook page showing the girl , two thumbs up despite a breathing mask , lying in bed . Laney was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia seven months ago . Last week doctors told her family that she has 70 % cancer cells in her blood . She came home from the hospital on Thursday and said she wanted to hear Christmas carols . So two days later people came from all over . Her dance team was there to honor her through one last number . Even Santa showed up . Many of them held back tears . `` I ca n't even express how I feel , '' Krysta Rebe , who has a daughter Laney 's age , told WFMZ . It was only an hour of singing , but it lifted the spirits of everyone who jammed the block outside the Browns ' home . On Facebook one woman wrote that she had seen and taken part in a miracle . `` As much as I want that miracle to be saving the life of an 8-year-old little girl , Laney , the miracle was an 8-year-old little girl teaching an entire community , town , city and the whole country the true meaning of Christmas , '' Marianne Franken wrote . Laney 's parents issued a statement Thursday thanking the public for its support and asking for privacy in the difficult days ahead .
Taylor Swift , Saturday , has leukemia and doctors say she will die soon . She asked to meet singer Laney Brown and to hear Christmas carolers at her home . On Friday she had a video chat with Swift . 8 one hour , for one hour , people packed the street and serenaded her .