A game of online Scrabble is credited for connecting a generous donor with a special needs boy in Illinois.

Katy Harsy, whose son Sam suffers from a severe form of autism, met John Wood from Queensland Australia on Facebook. When Wood learned that Harsy's family couldn't afford to buy a wheelchair for the boy, he didn't think twice.

“I was surprised that there was nobody else there that would have the ability to do it," Wood told KFVS. “To do something like that for Katie, to me was a no-brainer.”

Harsy was overwhelmed.

“I cried, I sobbed like a little baby. I couldn't believe it," she said. "And we were all so excited, Sam didn't want to get out of it.”

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