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Meet 3-year-old Cotton Candy Girl the internet fell in love with

3-year-old Beatrix's first time eating cotton candy led to an exciting night at Safeco Field Wednesday night. (Contributed by Jake Hart)

An adorable baseball fan named Beatrix – better known as Cotton Candy Girl – won hearts on the internet with her cotton-candy coated reaction during Wednesday night’s Mariners game.

Her photos and GIFs have gone viral.

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In the midst of her new internet fame, Beatrix talked to KIRO Radio's Dori Monson. She turned 3 last month.
Beatrix's dad, Jake Hart, explained his daughter's excitement.

“She’s literally like that at every baseball game, and we go to a lot of games,” he said. “We moved to New York now so we go to Mets games as well as Mariners games, and she’s just a huge fan,” he said. “So she’s pretty much like that at every game but last night, after (Adam) Lind hit the grand slam, everyone was pretty pumped up and they kept getting runs inning after inning. So middle of the third inning she was just sort of swept up with the frenzy with the rest of the crowd and the camera just happened to catch her being her delightful self.”

Hart doesn’t think it’s just the sugar that brought Beatrix to that level of ecstatic.

“I don’t think she was just hopped up on sugar there,” he said. “I mean she does love sugar — all little kids do when they get their daily treat. And that was her first time having cotton candy ever, so she was certainly in the middle of a pretty exciting experience as it is.

“You could say that in four seconds she seemed to experience every emotion available.

Hart said he’s still trying to process the response from his daughter’s reaction. He says they thought it was hilarious when his daughter was on the Jumbotron, but then became a little overwhelming.

“As much fun as we had last night when we woke up this morning, it was a whole different ballgame. Right now she’s been trending No. 1 at Reddit. …We’re hearing from websites and news organizations all over the country. It’s pretty crazy. I’m just happy to share our happy, fun-loving little girl with the rest of the world I guess.”