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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: soc.net-people,att.general,att.misc,misc.headlines,misc.kids,misc.misc,news.misc,nj.general,nj.events
Subject: Re: David's Last Wish IS A HOAX!!!
Keywords: He's trying for a world record
Message-ID: <8544@alice.UUCP>
Date: 15 Dec 88 14:05:53 GMT
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Liberty Corner NJ
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In article <4592@homxc.UUCP>, rick@homxc.UUCP (R.BUTTAFOGO) 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
> Book of World Records for having received the MOST Christmas cards EVER.

A news article that appeared yesterday described precisely this
situation -- a boy named David in Spring Hill, Florida who wants
zillions of postcards.

The article goes on to explain that the boy does not really exist,
but that ``bags and bags'' of postcards keep coming.

The real story is that there is a boy with cancer in England,
but his cancer is in remission and his name has already appeared
in the Guinness book for the world's largest postcard collection.

No postcards to Spring Hill.  Please!
-- 
				--Andrew Koenig
				  ark@europa.att.com