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From: cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell)
Newsgroups: soc.net-people,misc.headlines,misc.kids,misc.misc,news.misc
Subject: Re: David's Last Wish
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Date: 20 Dec 88 02:38:33 GMT
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In article <259@tsdiag.ccur.com> dwight@tsdiag.UUCP writes:
}In article <3635@phri.UUCP>, roy@phri.UUCP writes:
}> 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
}> 	This pops up periodically.  I have no idea how it got started, but
}> it's a hoax.  There is no David, there is no record for the most card
}> -- 
}> Roy Smith, System Administrator
}
}Does anyone ever check these things before passing them along? My 6 year old
}son came home from school last friday with a piece of paper passed out by
}his teacher which told 'Davids' sad tail. Schools were also the ones
}warning of the non existant 'Blue Star Tatoo'.
}
Seems like something you should ask your school's principal, if not your town's
school board.  Maybe someone to whom this really happened (you?) really SHOULD
go and complain backup through channels and find out what the scoop is.

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