The Dartmouth fifth-grader's meeting with English singer and songwriter Ed Sheeran was an unexpected but a wonderful surprise. 

Nora McNeil, 11, was at Boston Children’s Hospital on an in-patient basis for a few days last week and was being discharged May 23 when her child life specialist asked if the McNeils would like to stay a few hours longer to meet a special guest singer. 

“She was happy to stay since it was only going to be a few hours’ difference and found out just a short while later it was going to be Ed Sheeran coming to the hospital,” said Nora's mother, Shannon McNeil. 

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