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This is a depressing comment.

If there are people who would go out of their way to snail-mail an insult to an unwell and unfortunate target, then there is far less hope for the human race than I realized.

Alternatively, if you're suggesting that someone is so entrenched in their principles that when they need comfort or compassion, they won't appreciate a gesture of goodwill for what it is because they don't agree with the beliefs of the well-wisher, then, well, same thing.

Where's the assumption of good faith? Or at least hope for it?

Thanks for trying to make the world better, OP.



Why do you think most online communities have rules against posting real addresses? Because exactly these kind of things happen.


Online communities are sources of passion, emotion, argument, conflict.

There's a big difference between that and knowing basically nothing about a person other than that they're in a hospital and having a birthday.


Some people are really, really nasty. For no real reason. Unfortunately you only need an extremely small minority to fuck up a nice act.


I think the husband is smart enough to filter the cards.


oh, people would go out of their way to do a lot worse just because they have an address to focus on...




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