WESTERLY, Rhode Island –A little boy from Westerly, Rhode Island is battling a severe form of cancer. His one wish? To be famous before he dies. Well, Dor...

WESTERLY, Rhode Island --A little boy from Westerly, Rhode Island is battling a severe form of cancer. His one wish? To be famous before he dies. Well, Dorian Murray, 7, got one step closer to his goal Sunday when a group of 2,500 people gathered to show their support for him.

Dorian has rhabdomyosarcoma, which is a rare cancer with a very low survival rate. In December, doctors discovered cancer cells were now in Dorian’s spinal fluid. His parents made the decision to stop treatment at the start of the new year.

Dorian told his father that before he died, he wanted to be famous. Since then, people from all over the world have posted messages to Dorian, tweeting at him, writing him letters, all with messages of encouragement and including #DStrong as a hashtag.

“I’ve gotten Paris, Japan,” Dorian told WPRI. “Switzerland, Italy.”

An online group asked as many people from Dorian’s home town as they could to assemble a giant #DStrong message at one of Westerly’s beaches on Sunday. The video they made is going viral.

The #DStrong hashtag even caught the attention of New England Patriot’s superstar Rob Gronkowski. Last week, Gronkowski surprised Dorian, spending time with him and his family and urging him to keep fighting.