We’ve seen Jon Gosselin lugging around Toys R Us bags plenty of times, but on recently, the toys were not for his tots: The 32-year-old reality TV dad cheered up sickly children at Morgan Stanley’s Children Hospital in Washington Heights, New York.

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Gosselin, clad in his usual casual decor, played it low key, arriving by himself and visiting with the kids.

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