An autistic child is seen in the picture. (Photo : Getty Images/China Photos)
Hallee Sorenson, an autistic teen from Maine, has received more than 10,000 birthday cards from people around the world for her 19th birthday. The initiative was taken by her cousin who posted a picture online of the teen sitting alone and dejected on her last birthday urging people to send her cards.
Hallee's cousin Rebecca Guildford posted her plea on Facebook on June 6, which was shared more than 230,000 times by many people and strangers. The post showed the picture of the autistic child sitting at a bowling alley on her 18th birthday, after none of her friends she invited came to wish her.
Along with a picture of her cousin which Rebecca posted on Facebook on June 2, she also wrote a message, "My cousin is a beautiful young woman who will always have the mind of a child...so as you can imagine, she was heartbroken and beyond sad. She was hurt."
Guildford described Hal as a beautiful young woman in the message and how she loves receiving mails. In response to the post, Halle was showered with teddy bears, CDs and flowers from all over the world.
The highlighting part is she also received a deluge of birthday cards from the Washington Redskins, Boston Red Sox and also the state of Ohio. A soldier deployed in Afghanistan sent her cards and an employee of the Kennedy Space Center also sent her a NASA Barbie, reported United Press International.
Hallee, who turns 19 on July 19, was even flooded with messages from countries like Japan, Indonesia and Germany. Hallee's cousin made an appeal through her post to the world to take a few minutes out of their day and send her a card.
She further stressed on how the child's mother, Allyson Steel-Sorenson, would be happy to see her young girl getting birthday wishes. She was sad and cried on her last birthday as there was no one to wish her.
Allyson recently launched a Facebook page to help people learn about updates on Halle's birthday, noted Daily Mail. . She also noted how four people were engaged day and night to organize the various gifts and cards. The child's garage is also filled with mails from well-wishers.
