Taylor Swift fan Aubrey Bogacki, the sole survivor of a July 20 car crash that claimed the lives of her dad and two siblings, “needs” to meet the “Soon You’ll Get Better” singer — even if it’s just for “five minutes.”
That’s the latest goal for Jamie Ward, the founder of nonprofit organization Jamie’s Dream Team, who is already making the injured 11-year-old’s dream of seeing Swift in concert come true with tickets to the Eras Tour.
“We need Taylor Swift to meet this girl,” Ward, 37, exclusively tells PEOPLE, adding that it would be “remarkable” if the 14-time Grammy winner picked Aubrey to receive the coveted black fedora that she gives to a pre-selected fan while performing “22” at every tour stop.
“Oh my gosh, my heart would be so full. That needs to be the final piece of her puzzle … to move on, to be able to have that strength to keep going,” Ward says of Aubrey, who will attend Swift’s Nov. 3 show in Indianapolis.
That show will come more than three months after Aubrey was hospitalized after the crash that killed her dad Nathan Bogacki, 44, sister Emma, 17, and brother Grant, 13, in Slippery Rock Township in Pennsylvania.
Aubrey spent 19 days in a hospital for treatment for neck injuries, a broken arm, a collapsed lung and other injuries before being released on Aug. 8 to return home, where she’ll continue physically and mentally healing alongside her mother, Nicole Bogacki, and other loved ones.
Ward, who met Aubrey for the first time on Aug. 2 while she was still in the hospital, presented Aubrey with Eras Tour tickets as well as tickets to Disney World on the day she returned home.
When Ward asked Aubrey why she liked Swift, the girl answered like a true Swiftie. “She told me there’s a meaning behind every one of Taylor’s songs,” Ward explains. “It’s true. Taylor Swift relates to families. Every young girl, every woman can relate to her. And she writes songs to relate to her fans.”
Ward, who founded Jamie’s Dream Team in 2005, says the nonprofit has granted more than “30,000 dreams nationally,” including Aubrey’s dream.
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A GoFundMe page set up to help the family pay for medical and funeral expenses has raised more than $175,000 as of Friday, Aug. 16.
“We’re hoping that they have at least a moment of happiness before the holidays come,” Ward says of the Bogacki family’s grieving process. “To give them hope, to give them strength to keep fighting, to keep feeling, to show them people care, that they’re not alone.”
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