![]() ![]() Sadly, the Big Heart Project would end up being Connie's last public project. This year Sam and Connie planned their biggest event yet - to collect five-cent coins and make a giant silver heart. It was the beginning of the successful Love Your Sister charity. "I'm thrilled to be here, before I didn't know if I would make it or not so to be here is overwhelming," she said in an interview. She was at the finish line when he completed his marathon effort, with a cheque worth $1.5 million for the Garvan Institute of Medical Research. ![]() "He built Love Your Sister with one wheel," Connie said at a fundraising event this year. So Sam hit the road, with the goal of raising $1 million and spreading breast cancer awareness. Something my kids could read about and say 'Wow! That's my mum!'," Connie said in 2014. "Together my brother, actor Samuel Johnson, and I cooked up a way to give me a long-lasting legacy, something that would be around long after I was gone. Sam had a profile through his career as an actor, so Connie issued her larrikin brother a dare - would he ride around the country on a unicycle? ![]() Samuel Johnson holding up a unicycle after riding around Australia for the Love Your Sister charity. ![]()
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