The satellite city of Venice in Los Angeles is home to the St. Florence Sanatorium.

Ronan drove to the St. Florence Sanatorium and met Tom Cruise, who had already been in contact with him, at the door, and the two of them each brought a few media reporters.

The St. Florence Sanatorium mainly treats ALS patients, and Ronan and Tom Cruise came here to prepare for charity.

As for media journalists, it's a must-have for celebrity charity.

In Ronan's understanding, purposeful charity is also charity, and it is better than doing nothing.

And there is motivation for purpose, and people or companies can often persevere in their investment.

For example, Leonardo DiCaprio, who has maintained an environmentally friendly personality for more than 20 years, has also been promoting environmental protection through various means.

This can be said to be a typical purposeful charity, in the past several forest fires, Leonardo's charitable foundation has a large donation.

Compared with those who insulted him for his show through the Internet, I don't know how many times more.

Tom Cruise, dressed in a well-fitting suit, shook hands with Ronan and then waved to the media reporters, and walked in together, accompanied by the head of the St. Florence Sanatorium.

"We currently have more than 100 ALS patients. ”

As they walked towards the ward, the middle-aged male in charge explained Ronan and Tom Cruise the basic situation of the St. Florence Sanatorium: "The sanatorium is a semi-public interest, and it only charges patients a very low basic fee, and the main source of funding is social donations. ”

Ronan smiled and said, "Mr. Colt, your act of love has helped many people, please allow me to pay tribute to you. ”

Tom Cruise felt that he was robbed of Ronan's lines, and said: "In the past, society and the public ignored the group of ALS patients, and Ronan and I came here today just to help you." ”

"Thank you. John Colt hurriedly said, "Thank you both for your kindness. ”

This is not the first time that people have come to the nursing home to donate, and John Colt welcomes them, whether for any other purpose or not, because the money and supplies donated by these people can effectively help patients who are lying in hospital beds.

What's more, today's situation is not ordinary, and we may be able to attract more donations in the future to completely improve the treatment environment of the nursing home.

John Colt looked back at the several reporters and videographers who were following behind, something he hadn't done before.

He knew both of the two people who came here today, and even if he didn't know them, he had heard about them in the media.

Tom Cruise: Needless to say, one of the world's top movie stars, not only has a net worth of hundreds of millions of dollars, but his every move has attracted the attention of the media and the public.

Ronan Anderson is the first time I have seen him, but there are many reports in the media that Hollywood's super-rich are said to be worth billions of dollars, and Ronan Anderson ranked first on the list of Hollywood's most powerful people last year in the new "Vanity Fair" magazine this month!

The publicity effect that these two figures can bring far exceeds their own donations.

Some of the staff at the nursing home, standing in front of the ward building to greet Ronan and Tom Cruise.

Ronan asked, "Won't it delay normal work?"

John Colt said, "No, they don't work. ”

"That's good. Tom Cruise said: "We're here to help, not to cause trouble. ”

John Colt was not polite: "We have been looking forward to having important people like you come and bring more attention to ALS patients." ”

Tom Cruise said solemnly: "Ronan and I will call the world's attention. ”

Under the introduction of John Colt, Tom Cruise and Ronan shook hands with the staff who came to greet them one by one and said a few words of encouragement.

Several reporters followed, reminding the cameraman to hurry up and capture them all.

It's a show, a super charity show in which Tom Cruise sings the lead role, and St. Florence Sanatorium is just the beginning.

Subsequently, the group entered the ward building to visit ALS patients on the spot.

Ronan also had people prepare gifts, and Relativity Entertainment owns the rights to some relatively warm and inspirational movie DVDs.

These are given to patients personally.

Tom Cruise prepares the same movie DVD, but it's his personal work.

Most of the patients admitted to the St. Florence Sanatorium are patients with severe ALS, most of whom are unable to take care of themselves and need to stay in bed all year round.

This man has normal intelligence, but has to go through a brutal captivity game that sees him slowly lose his life.

There are some things that you can't imagine when you don't look at them, but when you see them, they touch people's hearts.

Ronan was really touched when he saw a girl who was only seventeen years old not only unable to move, but also unable to speak.

A lot of times, human life is really very fragile.

Tom Cruise gently hugged the girl's mother, but didn't know what to say.

Even Ronan, who has always been able to pull out countless fucking reasons anytime and anywhere, is speechless at this moment.

Comfort, how to comfort?

Sympathy, too, can only be expressed in monetary terms.

This is one of the five major terminal diseases specifically listed by the World Health Organization, along with cancer, AIDS, leukemia, and rheumatoid!

Ronan remembered that it was Stephen Hawking who was suffering from this disease.

"Shocking!"

Walking out of the ward, Ronan whispered, "When I saw them, I realized how happy we were. ”

Tom Cruise also lost the ease he had when he first arrived, and his face was full of heaviness: "Thank you, Ronan. ”

Ronan was puzzled: "What's wrong?"

"Thank you for reminding me and allowing me to visit them. Tom Cruise didn't seem to be joking, and said in a voice that only two people could hear: "I didn't take your plan too seriously before, I just thought it was a favor for you, but I saw all this, and I realized that this plan is very necessary!"

Ronan patted Tom Cruise's arm lightly: "I'm ashamed for you to say that, because I didn't think about ......it in the first place"

Tom Cruise said seriously, "Whatever the original purpose, Ronan, your plan can really help them. ”

"I hope it helps. Ronan sighed.

Any normal person will be touched when they see this, and Ronan is no exception, but he also knows that he doesn't understand medicine, and he is not God, so he can't solve their illness, so he can only help them financially.

Whatever the original plan was for, he really planned to do something, not for anything else, but for peace of mind.

"Mr. Crews, Mr. Anderson. John Colt came over at this point: "Shall we look somewhere else?"

Tom Cruise glanced at Ronan, saw Ronan nodded slightly, and said, "No need, let's stop disturbing their rest." Mr. Colt, shall we find a room and talk?"

John Colt immediately said, "Of course. ”

He quickly led Ronan and Tom Cruise into a nearby staff break room, temporarily isolating the reporters from the outside.

"Mr. Colt. Tom Cruise leaned back in a chair: "It's more serious than we thought. ”

Ronan didn't speak, and Tom Cruise was the main character compared to him.

John Colt smiled, with bitterness in his smile: "The world is so cruel to them. The whole person is confined to a container that fits perfectly with the body, including the face and lips, every finger and every toe is tightly attached to the container, in which you can hear and see everything that happens outside the container, have enough time to think or watch TV, but there is no way to speak, no way to make any noise, the caretaker carries them around, feeds and changes them, but does not know what they are thinking. ”

Ronan and Tom Cruise didn't interject, they just listened.

John Colt's words are full of sorrow: "Perhaps, when people are trapped in the container of the game at first, they are strange and funny, and later on, they will feel too cold and too hot for a while, and they will see and hear their families lamenting a sad fate." Later, family and friends came to see them less and less, and the caretakers sometimes forgot to turn on the TV, they always felt thirsty, itchy, lonely, panicked, and wanted to end everything as soon as possible, and they could only face it all, they could do nothing, and they were waiting for death......."

The whole body is uncontrollable, unable to move or speak, and finally unable to swallow and breathe on its own, watching his body be swallowed up by the disease little by little.

It's a terrible feeling.

Not everyone is Stephen Hawking.

Moreover, only he understands Hawking's pain.

John Colt added: "This group is painful and overlooked. I hope they can enter the field of vision of more people and attract the attention of the audience, who need the help of the whole society. ”

Tom Cruise thought about it for a moment and said, "Mr. Colt, I will personally donate $1 million to St. Florence Nursing Home. ”

"I also donated $1 million. Ronan chimed in.

It's not a lot of money, but charitable donations are about trickle.

"Thank you. John Colt hurriedly said, "Thank you two for your kindness. ”

"What do you think?" asked Tom Cruise.

"Tom. Ronan said, "Do what you think, and I will fully support you." ”

John Colt was a little weird, what were these two trying to do?

He didn't need to figure it out, Tom Cruise said directly: "Mr. Colt, I am going to set up a charitable foundation with Mr. Anderson specifically for ALS patients, which we planned before we came. ”

"Great!" John Colt knew it would be difficult, "I thank you for all the patients at St. Florentine's Sanitary. ”

Tom Cruise added: "The power of individuals is always limited, they need to get the attention of the whole society, and I am going to hold a press conference for the establishment of the charitable foundation, and I need to invite you to participate in it. ”

John Colt responded: "No problem!"