“Dinner with papaw tonight…he made 12 burgers for all 6 grandkids and I’m the only one who showed. 😢 love him,” she wrote. 
 
 dinner with papaw tonight...❤️ he made 12 burgers for all 6 grandkids and I'm the only one who showed. 😢 love him 
 
 People's hearts collectively broke on Wednesday after Oklahoma student Kelsey Harmon tweeted a picture of her glum granddad and explained the reason for his melancholy. 
 
 I just started crying...I'll eat your burgers pawpaw.. I love you so much https://t.co/TL6ccXQUvk 
 
 Within 24 hours her tweet had received more that 70,000 retweets, most of which expressed sentiments similar to this one. 
 
 JUST GOT DONE TALKING TO PAPAW AND HE WANTS TO INVITE EVERYONE OUT FOR A BURGER NEXT SATURDAY👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 
 
 But fear not! The five absent grandkids heard the internet's rallying cry and decided to make it up to their papaw with a giant cookout. "Papaw's having a cookout and everyone's invited," grandson Brock Harmon wrote in a Tweet. 
 
 The cookout is taking place at a flea market the Harmon family owns in Purcell, Oklahoma, on March 26, Harmon told BuzzFeed News. Burgers will be $2 each and they'll be selling T-shirts boasting "I had a burger with Papaw" for around $25. 
 
 "It was Papaw's idea to have the cookout," Harmon said, adding that Papaw is over the moon about his newfound internet fame and wanted nothing more than to celebrate with some burgers. 
 
 "He loves all of this," Harmon added. "He never ever thought he would be a celebrity." 
 
 Though some news outlets reported the proceeds would go toward the grandkids' college educations and charities, Harmon told BuzzFeed News that all the proceeds were going to Papaw and "what he decides to do with them is his business." 
 
 "We don't want anyone to think we're doing this for fame," Harmon told local news station KVUE-TV. 
 
 "We're a very family-oriented family. We communicate all the time … We want people to learn a lesson from this — call your grandparents, tell them you love them, go eat with them." 

 OKLAHOMA -- The grandfather who invited his six grandkids to dinner and only one showed up is ready to cook up some more burgers -- and you're invited. 
 
 On Saturday morning, one of the grandkids, Brock Harmon, posted on his Facebook page that "PAPAW IS HAVING A COOKOUT!!!!!!" and the invitation is open to the public. 
 
 So far, the post has been shared almost 30,000 times. The same photo posted on Twitter has gotten over 4,000 retweets and almost 5,000 likes. 
 
 Harmon said about 3,000 people have told him they were planning on attending. 
 
 "Hopefully, people come in, eat, get their pictures taken, hang out for thirty minutes or so and be courteous enough to make room for other people to show up," Harmon told KVUE. 
 
 The event is being held Mar. 26 at a flea market the family owns. 
 
 The idea for the cookout was actually Papaw's idea. 
 
 "We were talking about the whole thing and Papaw said, 'Why don't we have a cookout?,'" Harmon said. 
 
 So was the idea to sell T-shirts that said "I had a burger with Papaw." 
 
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 Harmon said the shirt is still being designed, but it will probably sell for $20-25 per shirt. The shirts will be available starting Mar. 26. 
 
 The money earned from the shirts will go towards the kids' college tuition. Kelsey and Brock are currently in college. Two of the grandkids are in high school, one is in junior high school and one works at a car dealership. Harmon sad they're also looking into some charities. 
 
 Harmon and the five other grandkids can't believe how much attention their family is receiving after Kelsey Harmon tweeted about the other kids missing dinner. 
 
 "We can’t believe something that small blew up like this. It’s crazy how social media can take something so little and magnify it to be ridiculously crazy," Brock Harmon said. "No one would ever think that our Papaw would be the most famous Papaw in the world." 
 
 His cousin, Kelsey, tweeted out a photo of their grandfather after the other grandkids didn't show up for dinner. 
 
 dinner with papaw tonight...❤️ he made 12 burgers for all 6 grandkids and I'm the only one who showed. 😢 love him pic.twitter.com/0z0DkPtUiR — kelsey (@kelssseyharmon) March 17, 2016 
 
 Since that tweet, Brock Harmon said Kelsey has gained over 30,000 followers on Twitter. He said he's gained about 7,000. 
 
 After that tweet went viral, Brock Harmon started receiving death threats for not attending dinner. 
 
 "I don’t think it was needed to be taken to that level," Harmon said. 
 
 The threats are still rolling in, along with positive messages to the family. Brock Harmon said whenever he logs into Facebook, he has hundreds of new messages waiting for him. His friend request inbox is completely full. 
 
 Brock Harmon said he and Kelsey have been swamped with messages from people they know and complete strangers. 
 
 Kelsey even posted this on Twitter. 
 
 really sorry to bring this up again, but replying to everyone is impossible. just want to leave it at this.. thx😊❤️ pic.twitter.com/kr8LoJC5bH — kelsey (@kelssseyharmon) March 18, 2016 
 
 The family did not expect the response they've gotten. 
 
 "We don’t want anyone to think we’re doing this for fame. We’re a very family-oriented family. We communicate all the time," Brock Harmon said. "We want people to learn a lesson from this -- call your grandparents, tell them you love them, go eat with them." 
 
 Most of the grandkids lives close to Papaw, only about four miles away, except for Kelsey who attends college about four hours away. 
 
 Brock Harmon said he didn't attend dinner that night because he had obligations he had made a week prior. He said the other four kids weren't told and it was a "failure to communicate." He sad Papaw called it a "miscommunication." 
 
 Kelsey Harmon told Buzzfeed that one of the good things to come of this ordeal is "it’s made young people realize how important family is.”
– Strangers said they'd gladly dine with "Sad Papaw" after a viral photo taken last Wednesday showed all but one grandchild skipped a dinner with him, for which he'd made burgers and their favorite homemade ice cream. Now they have their chance. "The most famous Papaw in the world" is having a cookout and you're invited. Grandson Brock Harmon tells BuzzFeed that Papaw will host a cookout at the family's flea market in Purcell, Okla., on Saturday. The Harmon family will be selling burgers—made by Papaw himself—for $2 a pop, per a Facebook post. Those who partake may also want to pick up a shirt with Papaw's face on it that reads, "I had a burger with Papaw." "It was Papaw's idea," says Harmon. "He never ever thought he would be a celebrity." At least 3,000 people have told Harmon they'll drop by. Harmon tells KVUE that all proceeds will go toward the grandchildren's college tuition or charities, though he tells BuzzFeed that Papaw will be the actual recipient. "What he decides to do with [the proceeds] is his business," he says. As for that missed dinner, Harmon says he had other plans but the four other grandchildren who didn't attend weren't actually told about it. Papaw called it a "miscommunication." Normally "we communicate all the time," Harmon adds. "We want people to learn a lesson from this: call your grandparents, tell them you love them, go eat with them"—unless you're eating with Papaw instead. (Even Montel Williams tweeted about Papaw.)