Toronto girl, 10, gets Barack Obama's autograph in Hawaii

HONOLULU - A ten-year-old Toronto girl received a presidential Christmas memory this week.

Kyrstin Lavelle received an autograph from U.S. President Barack Obama on Christmas Eve.

Kyrstin met Obama in Hawaii where the president is spending his holiday vacation.

She was with her uncle and older brother at a gym at a Marine Corps Base in Hawaii where Obama was working out.

Obama wrote "To Kyrstin Dream Big Dreams."

Kyrstin said she also gave Obama a flower, and he said he would give it to first lady Michelle Obama.

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  Kyrstin Lavelle, 10, holds her book for photographers to see with President Barack Obama's autograph and comment that reads "To Kyrstin Dream Big Deams" on Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kaneohe, Hawaii, Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2013. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)