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Say hi to Malia and Sasha.

The 11-year-old East Side girl, who has the same type of malignant brain tumor as Sen. Edward Kennedy, was too ill to attend President Barack Obama's inauguration in January.

But she got to meet the man she admires yesterday when he came to Columbus.

"God is good," said her aunt, Stephanie Ivory.

U.S. Rep. Pat Tiberi set up the meeting, which took place backstage at the Aladdin Shrine Center after Obama's speech to graduating Columbus police recruits. He had asked the White House after Inauguration Day whether the president could send Tanea a note, which he did.

Tiberi offered his tickets for yesterday's event to Tanea and her family -- Ivory, godmother Natausha Green and stepmom Rashida Ransom -- and he told the White House they'd be there.