Emily Kelly is a student at Western Kentucky University. When she was a junior in high school in 2019, she was in the middle of a two-year battle with an illness. On April 25th, 2021, everything changed when she underwent a surgery that she considers to be "one of the best days of my life." As a result of her health problems, Emily got involved with the Make-A-Wish Foundation. When Scooter Braun, a current member of the Make-A-Wish Foundation board of directors, heard that Emily's wish was to meet Tim McGraw, he made it his mission to make it happen. Unfortunately, two days before Tim and Emily were supposed to meet something came up and Tim was not going to be in Nashville at that time. So they decided to have Emily come to his concert in Nashville three months after they were supposed to originally meet. Tim decided he didn't want to wait that long, so he sent Emily a message and told her that the next day he was going to hop in his truck and drive several hours to her home in Kentucky to spend the day with her. The post on social media included several pictures that showed Tim exploring her hometown, sitting down on the family's couch and posing for photos with Emily and her family. They met up again during his recent tour stop in Nashville.