Teen with Stage Four Cancer Wishes for -- and Gets -- a Kiss from Channing Tatum



Alisa Finley has kissing Channing Tatum at the top of her bucket-list,
and she got it -- at least from a distance.

Alisa, 18, is a high school senior from Kansas who is suffering from stage-four brain cancer. She has her bucket-list posted on her Facebook page. Kissing Channing Tatum? Number one, except now it has this notation:

1- Kiss Channing Tatum -- Done

(but wouldn't it be amazing to meet in person??)

Teen with Stage Four Cancer Gets a Kiss From Channing Tatum
Teen with Stage Four Cancer Gets a Kiss From Channing Tatum

In addition to some solo screen-time in which he blew Alisa a kiss, Tatum and his wife, Jenna Dewan Tatum, sent her an impromptu performance of Pharrell's "Happy" plus a kiss (or two, if you look closely) from Oscar® night.

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With all due respect to Channing Tatum, Alisa has a lot of other priorities. She just got back from a trip to Paris with her mom for spring break, where she received a peck from a man underneath the Eiffel Tower, knocking off two big bucket-list items there. She has eaten every kind of cheesecake at the Cheesecake Factory, which is a feat worth emulating. Her friends are trying to get her on Ellen, and there's a big "DONE" next to "Get chocolate wasted." From the silly to the serious, Alisa's wishes have to do with all things any teenage girl -- any person, really -- could want: travel, fun times with friends and family, food, adventure (go mudding is on there, also scuba-diving in the Great Barrier Reef.) She wants to "say yes to everything for a whole day," have a glow stick fight, and make an adventure book.

I'd say she's already doing that, with a kiss from Channing Tatum for luck. But the wish that gets me most of all is #26 -- "Have a happy life." The notation next to it? "In progress."

-By: Laurie White

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