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Grand Prairie's Chewbacca Mom covers Michael Jackson for Dallas shooting tribute

Even if you're tired of seeing her everywhere, you have to admire the fact that from the beginning of her viral internet fame, Candace "Chewbacca Mom" Payne, has always been about making other people laugh and feel joy.

It makes sense, then, that she would want to do something following the tragic shooting in Dallas, which took place about half an hour away from her home in Grand Prairie. But she said she is "hundreds of miles away from really identifying with every single ounce of pain that is being felt by the whole world right now. Literally the whole world."

She says she had to be silent for a few days because she was "so sad" about the news, but now that she's had time to process, she wants to do what she can to try to spread joy again. This weekend she posted a cover of Michael Jackson's "Heal the World." As expected, it's been going viral.

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