Tuesday, January 11, 2005

CNN: Christmas keeps going strong for 14 year old Nick Waters

When the boy's church asked what he wanted for Christmas, Nick said he wanted Christmas cards, ten thousand of them. Nick has Holt-Oram syndrome, a rare disorder that causes heart abnormalities and birth defects of the hands and arms.

More than two weeks after Christmas, he has more than 130,000 cards, and they are still coming.

Cards have come from Ethiopia, Israel, Hong Kong, the Netherlands, Ireland, Australia and Canada. He received a package from the Secret Service, with photos of the President, Air Force One and White House pets Barney and Willie. He has cards from the Wake Forest basketball team, the Orlando Magic, the University of Georgia, Miss Utah, and even Elvis who confided to Nick he is still alive and in hiding.

"He's probably touched more lives in a month than we'll touch in a lifetime" said Darrell Cheek, a Sunday school teacher at First Baptist Church in Woodstock.

No one in his family wants the season to end.

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