“I did worry about getting her to the U.S., but I thought if I could just get her here, everything would be okay,” Elizabeth says.
 
It was indeed okay ― for three blessed years, anyway. 

Gabby, as the family calls her, “had a compassion and empathy rare in someone so young. She was truly one in a billion,” her mother says. “She exuded this joy, effervescence and zeal and was so incredibly brave.”