Re: help a dying child

In article <3uc96k$21...@ixnews4.ix.netcom.com>, dvo...@ix.netcom.com
(Denise Voskuil) wrote:

> Smegma Sam <spr...@interport.net> wrote:
> 
(snip)
> 
> No, PLEASE don't pass this on!  This is not legit - the real Craig
> Shergold recovered many years ago, and is now a healthy teenager whose
> family can barely throw out the cards fast enough.  Please pass on the
> following info whenever you see this mentioned, and you'll save people
> a lot of hassle.
Thanks! This is a lot better than relying on my feeble memory. ;)
> 
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> 
>      Dying child seeks cards
> 
> I write with reference to the letter about Craig Shergold, the 7
> year old
> child collecting business cards.
Actually, he was originally collecting *get well* cards. 
> 
> This story has circulated around the world many times, and is now
> seriously
> out of date.  Craig Shergold is still alive, having had a series
> of
> successful operations in England and the USA.  His 14th birthday
> was on the
> 24th June 1993.  His mother was interviewed last year by the BBC,
> and Craig
> was also asked to give a message.  It was: "Please, no more
> cards".
I thought this was the case. BTW, if he was 14 in 1993, that means he is
*16* today-and I'm 20! Yikes! 
> 
> When he was 7, Craig was suffering from what was thought to be a
> terminal
> brain tumour, and he wanted to get into the Guinness Book of
> World Records
> by getting over a million get well cards.  
(snip)
So this has been going on for NINE YEARS!!
> Back in England, Craig and his mother are still swamped with
> several bags
> of mail a day.  Volunteers from a local church come round each
> week to help
> sort it, and extract the family post and bills that are lost in
> the
> flood.   The rest is stored in bags in their garden until it can
> be taken
> away as scrap paper - they long since ran out of room in their
> small
> house.
And you thought you had a junk mail problem!
(snip)
> If you want to help sick children, do make a donation to UNICEF
> or the Red
> Cross, or to a local charity or hospital.  And please, if you
> want to help
> Craig Shergold, pass on this letter to everyone you know and tell
> them,
> 
>      "Please, no more cards".
> 
>      With best regards, 
>           David Wright
Yep, no matter where you live there are worthy charities who could use any
time you could give as well as money. (And it would help the outside image
of the hacker community too. :) [I'm posting from alt.2600.]) 
-Loquisimo
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Extract from The Oregonian, Wednesday January 8, 1992, page C8
> (off AP):
> 
> Class collects 57,555 cards - all in vain
> 
(snip)

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