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From: jean@ltuxa.ATT.COM (Jean Airey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.ibm.pc,soc.misc,soc.net-people,misc.misc
Subject: Re: please help
Message-ID: <1555@ltuxa.ATT.COM>
Date: 18 Mar 88 17:28:54 GMT
References: <1600@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> <572@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
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Organization: AT&T - Corporate Training, Lisle, IL
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Summary: legend

In article <572@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>, dave@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Dave Goldblatt) writes:
> From article <1600@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>, by wel@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (Warren E. Lewis):
> >  David is a 7 year old boy who is dying from Cancer.  Before he dies,
> >  he has a dream of one day being in the Guinness Book of Records for
> >  the person who has had the most postcards sent to them.  If you would
> 
> Please do NOT send any more postcards!  A request was just posted stating
> this child HAS achieved his goal and WILL be in the Guinness book; he had
> over 144,000 cards sent to him.  
> -dg-


Are you quite sure that this information is correct?  there has been an
urban legend exactly like this floating around for years (except
the kid was dying in Scotland).





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Jean Airey
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