By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 11:02 EST, 20 September 2013 | UPDATED: 12:47 EST, 20 September 2013 The eight-year-old boy who wrote a heartfelt letter to Santa Claus asking for help to stop his sister being bullied at school got one of his Christmas wishes early. Ryan Suffern's letter made news around the world after his mother Karen posted it on her Facebook page over the weekend, touched that he wanted to forgo his presents to help his twin sister Amber - but also heartbroken her daughter was suffering. He also asked that her favorite band Big Time Rush come to Amber's birthday party as it would 'make her so happy'.
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Mom Karen Suffern cried after reading the letter written by her son and posted it on her Facebook
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Ryan, 8, wrote to Santa Claus asking that instead of a present at Christmas he would prefer if the bullies at school would stop picking on his twin sister
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Good Morning America arranged for Big Time Rush to sing to Amber
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Rocky Mount Preparatory in North Carolina have said they are taking actions to make things easier for Amber
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She told her mom she sometimes wished she was dead so the bullies would leave her alone
at school are still picking on @placeholder and its (sic) not fair,’ he wrote.