With assistance from her daughter Rosie, Cesario shared a photo on Facebook holding a sign from her hospital bed that said, “Please share so I can meet Bon Jovi.” She is battling stage IV lung cancer.

After sharing the photo, Carol and her family took a trip from their hometown in Pennsylvania to Bon Jovi’s restaurant, JBJ Soul Kitchen in Toms River, New Jersey.

Carol’s photo caught the attention of the singer. He showed up that day to surprise the fan and make her wish a reality.

“Mom’s dream came true,” Skripkunis wrote on Facebook, sharing photos and the video.

“He spent almost 2 hours hanging out with her and just chatting with my family,” Skripkunis said in another Facebook post. Bon Jovi also played them his new album and gave Cesario a signed guitar and book.

“You have no idea what this meant to us. This is a day we will never forget,” Skripkunus wrote on Sunday. “Thank you so much for these memories with our mom and her Bons.”

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The “Dead or Alive” singer recently opened his second Soul Kitchen restaurant in New Jersey. It’s located near Toms River, which is a town devastated by Hurricane Sandy.

Bon Jovi and his wife, Dorothea Bongiovi, teamed with the Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation to hold a grand opening earlier this month for the B.E.A.T. Center, which stands for Bringing Everyone All Together.

The center holds the special restaurant. At the establishment, those in need can perform volunteer work to pay for their meals. In addition, paying customers can donate toward the cost of the volunteers’ food by purchasing a “Pay It Forward” certificate. Jon opened his first restaurant in Red Bank, New Jersey in 2011.

“[Soul Kitchen] just looks like another restaurant,” the singer told CBS News. “And you have to understand that those who are in need sometimes don’t have that opportunity to go to a restaurant.”

According to the Associated Press, the B.E.A.T. Center is a one-stop location to help people apply for health care, receive nutritional assistance and prepare for for jobs in the food industry. Soul Kitchen is at the heart of it all.

“When you come into this restaurant, there are no prices on our menu,” Bon Jovi continued. “So if you are in need, you participate. And that means bussing the table, washing a dish, working in our gardens. If you are here to just enjoy a meal, and effect change directly by buying a pay it forward card, you are paying for your meal and for someone else’s that are here in the restaurant.”

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