Little girl who survived fire received more than 700,000 Christmas cards
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She asked and she received.
8-year-old Sa’fyre Terry lost her father and three younger siblings in a 2013 fire that burned 75 percent of her body.
When asked what she wanted for Christmas, she said that she wanted Christmas cards to fill her card stand.
It was a simple request that got the world’s attention.
According to the U.S. Postal Service, she received more than 700,000 letters and more than 16,000 packages in less than three weeks.
USPS spokeswoman Maureen Marion told ABC News the post office had been tracking deliveries to Sa'fyre in Schenectedy, New York, after first hearing about her story.
"You could see incrementally the social media start to go and the mail start to go with it," Marion told ABC News.
Marion said that there were letters from Japan, parts of Africa and Europe, as well as letters from all over the U.S.
“She will have this forever and, I think, for the people who were able to send her a card or a note, they too got a beautiful thing out of this as well,” Marion said.
