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From: rik@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Rik Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: One Last Wish
Message-ID: <1991May9.193829.5877@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
Date: 9 May 91 19:38:29 GMT
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dddean@bluemoon.uucp (David D. Dean) writes:


>I have been a user of the News Net for some time, and I know that
>whenever someone posts somethig totaly irrelevent to the sig that
>he/she gets flamed something fierce!

>The following is a text file that I found very touching, and thought
>that others could help out:


>                                LAST WISH

>          A brain tumor is cutting short the life of seven-year-old
>Craig Shergold.  His Last Wish doesn't seem very much to ask; simply
>that he receive some Get Well cards---hopefully enough to break The
>Guiness Book of World Records.  If everyone reading this message 
>could send him a card (or several!) and post this note on any 
>bulletin boards or in any publications he/she may be in contact with,
>or even word of mouth, surely Craig's Last Wish will come true.

Really, I find it hard to believe that there are many people who have
"been a user of the News Net for some time" to NOT have heard of Craig
Shergold.  This first came up years ago.  Craig got his wish, and
broke the Guiness record...3 times over.  The local post-office are
throwing these cards out by the hundreds of thousands.  He doesn't
want any more cards.

DON'T BOTHER SENDING CARDS.  They will be thrown out.

rik.

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