The Dirrs of Saskatchewan had all the makings of a young power couple. John “JS” Dirr worked as an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, while his wife, Dana, was a trauma surgeon at a hospital.
The two ran a busy household brimming with adorable, smiling children – 10 in all, including 5-year-old Cliff Elias, nicknamed “Warrior Eli” for his ongoing fight against cancer.
On Mother’s Day in 2012, tragedy struck. Dana died after a head-on collision with a speeding car. She held on just long enough to give birth to the couple’s 11th child, Evelyn Danika. JS’s heartbreaking Facebook posts describing his wife’s struggle to live and her eventual death went viral, and outpourings of sympathy and sorrow from thousands of strangers came flooding in.
But the many followers of their story soon discovered that the Dirrs didn’t exist.
from Eve’s Feed http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/81321722/The-strange-world-of-phoney-internet-tragedies-that-go-viral
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