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The grieving family of a British teenager who died of cancer is bringing her back for Christmas — as a life-size cardboard cutout.

Jodie Williams’ loved ones say the 19-year-old was such a huge fan of the holidays they decided to make the large cutout from a photo of her smiling while wearing a Santa sweater.

Now she is once again in their Christmas photos — and is due to take her place at the dinner table, her family told The Sun.

“It’s not how other families might do it, and it might freak some people out, but Jodie would have loved it,” mom June told the UK paper.

“We joke that she’s never going to age in the photos over the years but that we will,” her mom said. “She would enjoy that as she had a dark sense of humor.”

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The Nottingham teen was diagnosed with Ewing’s Sarcoma — a rare cancer that forms in bone or soft tissue — just before Christmas 2017, her family told the paper.

She hosted a farewell party for 150 friends in June this year — and died just minutes after returning to her hospice, the mom said.

“She shut her eyes and she didn’t wake up,” her mom told The Sun. “The last memory all her friends and most of her family have of her was her having fun at her party. That’s how she wanted people to remember her.”

Jodie was a survivor of the 2017 Manchester Ariana Grande concert where a terrorist killed 22 and was such a fan of the singer a friend made her a cutout of the star. She also had one of her other favorite star, British funnyman James Corden.

Her family put both cutouts in the hearse for Jodie’s funeral — sparking the idea to get one of her, too, in time for her favorite holiday.

“It’s a good chance she can be in a photo with us – she would love that, she would find it weird and touching,” her mother told The Sun.

“We were like, ‘Actually, she will never be forgotten.'”

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