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From: pearl@porthos.rutgers.edu (Starbuck)
Newsgroups: soc.net-people,misc.headlines,misc.kids,misc.misc,news.misc
Subject: Re: David's Last Wish
Keywords: He's trying for a world record
Message-ID: <Dec.15.11.35.06.1988.19968@porthos.rutgers.edu>
Date: 15 Dec 88 16:35:06 GMT
References: <4592@homxc.UUCP> <81765@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: pearl@porthos.rutgers.edu (Starbuck)
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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In article <81765@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
 >>There is a young boy by the name of David at the Sloan Kettering Cancer
 >>Hospital who is terminally ill.  His last wish is to be in the Guiness

 >NO!!!!!!!  We just went through this whole shebang on CompuServe. This David
 >DOES exist, unlike all the previous Davids. However, he's already received
 >something like 3 million cards, and the Last Wish folks are now actively
 >asking people to NOT SEND ANY MORE CARDS. This was confirmed by multiple
 >contacts from folks in the CompuServe Sci-Fi sig.
 >
 >So let this one die. Please.


This was *very* poorly worded.  

Steve
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