🚀 go-pugleaf

Jill Daniel (jdaniel@synopsys.com) wrote:

: It is just this type of sentiment that propagates so much hatred and
: distrust among people.  Why do you have to read something negative into
: what is probably a genuine request?  LIGHTEN UP, PEOPLE! I'd say reaching
: your 50th anniversary is something to be proud of and why shouldn't Gayle
: want to help her folks celebrate?

Several reasons: #1 -- Her parents don't know us, so our well wishes 
don't mean a thing to them; #2 -- Craig Shergold needed an operation and 
millions (yes, MILLions) of cards were sent to him to cheer him up and 
put him in the Guinness book.  It got to be SO BAD that finally his 
mother had to go on the BBC last year and PLEAD with people to stop 
sending letters and cards.  Once these things start they will go on for 
YEARS.  Most of us are skeptical of this kind of stuff because usually 
some cruel person is subjecting some innocent person to a barrage of 
letters.  In the case of Craig, whoever started the mail campaign was 
well-meaning, but the situation took on a life of its own.

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