Rashidah Sutton-Bryant, 21, with her 4-year-old son, Aiden. (Photo courtesy of the Sutton family)
Leah Sutton was on her deathbed when she made the request.
Her family surrounded her, taking shifts around the clock to offer comfort as she lay in her first-floor, railroad apartment in Newark’s West Ward. She had just one wish before she succumbed to colon cancer in 2018.
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