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Rizzo makes it right; sick girl gets new photo after hers was stolen

Abby Schrage has never met Anthony Rizzo, but the Cubs first baseman is her beacon of hope.

On the window of Abby's pediatric intensive care unit room at St. Louis Children's Hospital hung an autographed Rizzo picture and Cubs mural.

The picture of Rizzo swinging his bat is a constant reminder for Abby, who is 12 and battling brain cancer for the second time, that there's "life beyond lying in a hospital bed."

However, that cherished picture has been missing since Friday.

Abby was in her hospital bed wide-eyed, shocked and in silence as her family scoured the room, opening up drawers and searching the floor for the picture. But after several minutes of frantically searching, the realization sunk in that the photo was gone.

Rizzo was also upset when he heard the news, and he wanted to make things right.

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