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傑克遜那時只有15歲，羅比奈特現在相信他那時一定比她還緊張。
1973年，她和家人到了西雅圖，她住進了西雅圖兒童醫院，然後是兒童矯形醫院和醫學中心。
羅比奈特接受了骨髓移植，那時還是實驗性的手術。她是接受此療法最年輕的患者。她經歷了化療、放療和多種藥物治療。
最糟糕的是，她被隔離了3個月。她通過對講機和姐妹交談，只有母親被允許進入病房。醫生告訴家裏人所有能做的都已經做了，但她的情況沒有好轉。
“經歷過那一切之後，你只感到疲累，想回家，想放棄戰鬥。”羅比奈特說。
她聽著最喜歡的樂隊-傑克遜5的歌曲，在一台醫生允許她使用的消毒過的答錄機上。
在3月7日，她有了第一個訪客。
“我坐在房間裏朝窗戶外面看，恰好聽著傑克遜5的‘看向窗外’，這時聽到護士們變得很興奮。”她透過玻璃向外看，這是她和這個繁忙醫院的唯一聯繫，看到傑克遜5樂隊站在那裏。
“他們問我想見哪一個人，我說想見邁克爾——他是最可愛的。”羅比奈特笑著說。
她形容說十幾歲的傑克遜顯然很害羞，但令人難以置信的親切和真誠，他給了她一個簽名照，拉著她的手問她感覺怎樣。
“已經有很長時間沒人不戴手套接觸我了，我看到了頭髮而不是只露出眼睛的綠帽子。”
從那以後，羅比奈特開始好轉。
“我不會說他挽救了她的生命——那太瘋狂了——但他給了她支持，帶給她已經失去的活下去的意願。”49歲的特琳·羅比奈特，萊斯麗的姐姐說。
萊斯麗最終好轉了，她的家庭回到了田納西的格林維爾，現在她仍與父母住在一起。
萊斯麗17歲時，再次遇見了傑克遜。
1984年8月，傑克遜5的勝利巡演來到了諾克斯維爾，舉行兩晚的演唱會，由於很受歡迎，又增加了第3場。每晚都有將近5萬名歌迷湧入尼蘭體育場觀看演唱會。
萊斯麗·羅比奈特得到了演唱會的免費門票。第3晚，她來到後臺見到了整個樂隊，她給邁克爾·傑克遜帶了一張手寫的生日卡。
“我問他是否記得我，他說記得。我們談論我在合唱隊唱歌以及不久我將會脫離背托。”羅比奈特說。
傑克遜告訴保安人員她是他的客人，她得以在一個突出來的VIP看臺上看了第3場演出，就坐在傑克遜的母親凱薩琳的旁邊。
第一次遇見傑克遜後3個月，羅比奈特離開西雅圖兒童醫院時，醫生說她也許可以活10年。現在，雖然仍與疾病鬥爭著，她身高不足4英尺，體重只有60磅，但她現在42歲，過著積極的生活。
象傑克遜一樣，她熱愛動物，她加入了北美殘疾人馬術協會，目前正在接受成為指導的培訓。
“我總能感受到邁克爾，感覺與他有相似的靈魂，因為我們在成長過程中都不能去一般小孩能去的地方、做一般小孩能做的事。”羅比奈特說。
當特琳打電話告訴她傑克遜的死訊時她正坐在搖椅上，消息令她感到不安。
姐妹倆都認為，關於邁克爾·傑克遜人們可以說他們想說的，但他做了許多好事，她們希望這是他被人們銘記的理由，當然還有他的音樂。
Leslie Robinette was 6 years old when she first met Michael Jackson. An ailing little girl with barely any hair and a swollen stomach, Robinette suffered then, as now, from aplastic anemia caused by the genetic disease fanconi anemia, which she describes as being “like a little Pac-Man going after all your bone marrow.”
Jackson was only 15. Robinette now believes he must have been more nervous than she was.
In 1973, she and her family went to Seattle , where she stayed in Seattle Children’s Hospital – then The Children’s Orthopedic Hospital and Medical Center . Robinette received a bone marrow transplant, which at the time was an experimental surgery. She was one of the youngest to ever have the procedure. She went through chemotherapy, radiation and an ever-changing plethora of medications. But worst of all, she was kept in isolation for three months.
She spoke to her sisters through walkie-talkies, and only her mother was allowed in the room. Doctors told the family they had done all they could do, but her condition just wasn’t improving.
Leslie Robinette Today
“After you go through all of that, you just get tired and want to go home; you kind of give up the fight,” Robinette said.
She listened to her favorite group, The Jackson 5, on a sterilized record player doctors allowed her to have.
On March 7, she received her first visitor.
“I was sitting in my room looking out the window, ironically listening to ‘Looking Through the Window’ by the Jackson 5, when I heard all the nurses going wild and carrying on,” Robinette said. She looked through the plate glass that was her only connection to the busy hospital and saw The Jackson 5 standing there. “They asked me which one I wanted to see, and I said I wanted to see Michael – he was the cute one,” Robinette said, laughing.
She described the teenage Jackson as obviously shy but incredibly kind and sincere. He gave her an autographed picture, held her hand and asked her how she was doing. “It had been so long since I’d touched someone not wearing gloves, and I saw hair instead of just a green cap with eyeballs peeking out,” said Robinette.
After that visit, Robinette started getting better.
“I would never say that he saved her life – that’s crazy – but he gave her back a little of her will to live because she had lost it,” said Trine Robinette, 49, Leslie’s sister. Leslie eventually did improve, and her family returned to their farm in Greeneville , Tenn. , where she still lives with her parents.
When Leslie was 17, she met Jackson again
The Jackson 5’ s Victory Tour came to Knoxville in August 1984 for a two-night concert that was extended a third night because of its popularity. Nearly 50,000 fans crowded into Neyland Stadium each night to see the concert. Leslie Robinette received free tickets to the concerts, and on the third night, she went backstage to meet the whole Jackson gang. She brought Michael Jackson a hand-written birthday card. “I asked him if he remembered me, and he said yes. We talked about my singing in chorus and how I was getting my back brace off soon,” Robinette said.
Jackson then told his security detail tha
t she was his guest, so she got to watch the third show from a raised VIP platform, seated right next to Jackson ’s mother, Katherine.
When Robinette left Seattle Children’s Hospital three months after her first meeting with Jackson, doctors said she might live 10 years. Still struggling with her disease, she is less than 4 feet tall and weighs about 60 pounds, but she is now 42 and lives an active life. Like Jackson , she has a strong passion for animals. She is involved in North American Riding for the Handicapped Association and currently is training to become an instructor.
“I’ve always felt that Michael and I were kind of kindred spirits, because we both grew up not being able to really go anywhere or do anything normal kids do,” Robinette said. Leslie was sitting in her rocking chair when Trine called to tell her about Jackson ’s death, and she was upset by the news.
Both sisters agree that people can say what they want about Michael Jackson, but he did a lot of good and they hope that is what he will be remembered for. And, of course, his music.
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