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Tom Hanks sent a letter and a Corona-brand typewriter to an Australian boy who wrote to him about being bullied by his name, Corona, Australian television networks reported Thursday.
Corona De Vries, an eight-year-old boy from the Gold Coast in the state of Queensland wrote to the Hollywood star after he and his wife, Rita, spent more than two weeks in quarantine after testing positive for COVID-19 in the Australian spa. .
The boy had written to Hanks saying, “I heard on the news that you and your wife had contracted the coronavirus.” Channel 7 News reported. “You’re good?”
He said he loved his name, but people at school called him the coronavirus, which made him “sad and angry.”
“Your letter made my wife and I feel so wonderful!” Hanks replied in a letter written on a Corona typewriter that he had brought to the Gold Coast.
“You know, you are the only person I know who has the name Corona, like the ring around the sun, a crown,” the double Oscar winner wrote to the boy.
“I thought this typewriter would be right for you,” an image from the letter transmitted by Channel 7 News He showed. “Ask an adult how it works. And use it to write me back.
Hanks wrote by hand at the end: “P.S. You have a friend in me!
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