A Christmas Miracle for Bruce?

How Bruce Willis' blended family have found hope amid the heartache this holiday season

THE MAN THEY KNOW & LOVE "When I'm with him, it's my dad and he loves me," Tallulah says of spending time with Bruce, who cavorted around NYC with youngest daughter Evelyn in a throwback video his wife, Emma, posted on Nov. 10.

He was surrounded by love. In a pair of photos jointly posted by Tallulah and Scout Willis on Instagram on Nov. 28, their father, Bruce, sits between them, smiling and holding a “Best Dad Ever” plaque as they gaze at him. Their simple caption for the Thanksgiving moment? “Grateful.”

That’s a sentiment the whole family have learned to embrace during Bruce’s brave fight with frontotemporal dementia (FTD). “Holidays are hard,” his wife, Emma Heming, has said, but now, a year-and-a-half after Bruce’s heartbreaking diagnosis, she reveals, “I have so much more hope. I have hope in how our entire family can find joy in the small things, and in coming together to celebrate all the moments life has to offer.” Together, she and Bruce’s ex, Demi Moore, along with his daughters, Rumer, Scout, Tallulah, Mabel and Evelyn, are “planning to make this Christmas extra special,” says a source. “They’re still praying for a miracle, of course, and finding a cure for the disease, but they’re mostly focused on spending quality time with him while they still can. At this point, every second of connection with him is special.”

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