5-Year-Old Girl and RESCUE DEER Dance Ballet on AGT — Simon Cowell BURSTS Into Tears

Hi, my name is Leslie. I am 5 years old and I live in Montana with my mommy, my daddy, and my best friend. My daddy is a forest ranger. He protects the animals and the trees. One day, he came home and he was holding something very small in his arms. It was a baby deer. He was shaking and crying. My daddy said he found him alone in the forest. The baby deer was very hungry and very sad because hunters took his mommy away. She is gone forever. The baby deer was all by himself and he did not know what to do. My daddy brought him to the veterinarian. The doctor said the baby deer was very sick. He was too skinny and too weak. He was also very, very sad because he missed his mommy so much. The baby deer stayed at the doctor for three days. They gave him medicine and food. They tried to make him feel better. But he was still so sad. When he came home with us, I saw him and I felt something in my heart. It was like we knew each other from before. Maybe from another life. I do not know how to explain it. I just felt it. I sat next to him on the floor and I touched his face very softly. He looked at me with his big brown eyes. And I started to cry because I could feel how much he missed his mommy. I told him I would be his friend forever. I told him he was safe now. Every day I would sit with him. I would talk to him and sing to him. My mommy said I should give him space but I could not. I needed to be with him. He needed me too. I could tell. One day I was dancing in my room. I love ballet. I have been dancing since I was three years old. The baby deer was watching me from the door. Then something amazing happened. He walked into my room and he started to move with me. He was dancing. He was dancing ballet with me. I could not believe it. My mommy and daddy came running because they heard me screaming with happiness. They saw the baby deer dancing and they started crying. It was the most beautiful thing we ever saw. He was not sad anymore. He was happy. From that day we danced together every single day. He learned all the steps. He learned how to spin and how to jump. He learned how to move his legs like a real ballet dancer. It was like magic. Everyone who saw us could not believe it. They said it was impossible. But it was real. It was so real. My ballet teacher said she never saw anything like it in her whole life. She said it was a miracle. I think it is because we have a special connection. I think the baby deer knows I love him and I will never leave him. And I think he loves me too. He follows me everywhere. When I wake up, he is next to my bed. When I eat breakfast, he sits with me. When I go to sleep, he sleeps in my room. He is my best friend in the whole world. Sometimes I think about his mommy and I get so sad. I think about how scared he must have been in the forest all alone. I think about how much he cried for her. It makes my heart hurt. But then I see him dancing and I see him happy and I know that even though he lost his mommy, he found us. And we found him. My daddy says that sometimes the saddest things can turn into the most beautiful things. He says that love can heal anything. I believe that. Because I see it every day with my baby deer. My whole family loves him so much. My grandma and grandpa cry every time they see us dance together. They say it is the most special thing they ever saw. They say we were meant to find each other. I think they are right. One night, my mommy and daddy told me they had an idea. They said we should go on a big show and dance for everyone. They said we should share our story with the world. I was scared at first. I am only five and this is a very big stage. But then I looked at my baby deer and I knew we could do it. I knew we could show everyone how beautiful our friendship is. I knew we could show everyone that even when you lose something, even when your heart is broken, you can still find joy again. You can still dance again. So here we are. Me and my best friend. We came all the way here to dance for you. We want to show you what love looks like. We want to show you what happens when two souls find each other. This dance is for his mommy. The one he lost. The one who would be so proud of him right now. And this dance is for everyone who has ever felt sad or alone or broken. Because I want you to know that you can be happy again. Just like my baby deer. Just like me. We are going to dance a ballet that we created together. Every move means something. Every step is a piece of our story. Please watch us. Please feel what we feel. And please remember that love is the strongest thing in the whole world. It is stronger than sadness. It is stronger than loss. It is stronger than anything. Thank you for letting us be here. Thank you for listening to our story. Now we would like to dance for you.