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From: kevin@xilinx.UUCP (Kevin Kelleher)
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: <621@xilinx.UUCP>
Date: 15 Dec 88 16:34:33 GMT
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Reply-To: kevin@xilinx.UUCP (Kevin Kelleher)
Organization: Xilinx Inc.
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> 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
> Book of World Records for having received the MOST Christmas cards EVER.
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According to a call to the local "Make a wish" foundation this is a hoax.
He may be trying for a record, but as far as they know he is not ill.