( CNN ) -- If you 've been in the hospital or had a family member or friend there , you know how lonely and scary it can be . Once visiting hours are over , the levity and the hugs stop . But , if it were up to Taylor Crabtree , the hugs would last all night . Taylor Crabtree hopes to send 30,000 teddy bears to children in hospitals across the U.S. by September . When Taylor was 7 years old she started TayBear . Like many little girls , Taylor and her friends made hairclips to sell for extra money . But instead of spending it on herself , she used that extra money to buy teddy bears for kids hospitalized with cancer and chronic blood diseases . Taylor knew little about starting a business , but understood the heartbreak of cancer from her grandmother 's battle with the disease . `` I thought , if it 's that hard for my grandmother to go through , it must be so much harder for little kids , '' she said . Taylor 's goal was to buy 50 bears for her local hospital . But , she could n't resist the letters from kids ( and kids at heart ) asking her for more bears to hug at night . Now 17 , Taylor has donated nearly 21,000 teddy bears to Hematology/Oncology departments across the country . Watch Taylor 's CNN.com Live interview » . `` I 've always loved teddy bears , '' Taylor said . `` I thought teddy bears would be the best things to use to help children with cancer be comforted and get through some of the hard times they 're going through . '' E-mail to a friend .
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