Just in case you haven't heard about one of the most heartbreaking songs of Taylor Swift called "Ronan", it's about the too-short life of a little boy. The real boy behind the song is Ronan Thompson, an impish 3-year-old from Phoenix with coppery blond hair and mesmerizing big blue eyes. In 2010, a few months after his third birthday, Ronan was given a diagnosis of neuroblastoma, an often deadly childhood cancer. He died on May 9, 2011, three days before he was to turn 4. Taylor only learned about Ronan from a blog that his mother, Maya Thompson, began shortly after the diagnosis to keep family and friends informed. “A few weeks into it, I remember writing that I had a feeling this blog was going to get dark and ugly and scary, because it’s a horrific thing to go through,” she said in an interview. “I wasn’t willing to sugarcoat any of this. I think a big part of why nothing gets done with childhood cancer is that everybody wants to wrap it in a cute little bow with cute little bald kids. But it’s so sad. The statistics are so awful.” The song was written by the collaboration of Mrs. Thompson and Taylor Swift instead. As a help, all the money that the song got from charts had been transferred to the family of the young boy.