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Tom Hanks Sends Letter and Typewriter to Bullied 8-Year-Old Boy Named Corona

Corona De Vries, 8-year-old boy wrote to Tom Hanks and his wife after they got the virus in Australia. 

The boy wrote “I heard on the news you and your wife had caught the coronavirus,” “Are you OK?”

He added that he loved his name but was being called “coronavirus” at school.

“I get very sad and angry when people call me this,” he wrote.

Tom Hanks kindly replied the boy started as  “Dear Friend Corona”.

“Your letter made my wife and I feel so wonderful! Thank you for being such a good friend – friends make friends feel good when they are down.”

“You are the only person I’ve ever known to have the name Corona – like the ring around the sun, a crown.”

He also sent a Corona-brand typewriter, which he had used during his quarantine in the city.

“I thought this typewriter would suit you,” he said. “I had taken it to the Gold Coast, and now, it is back – with you. Ask a grown up how it works. And use it to write me back.”

Hanks had hand-written at the end of the letter: “PS! You got a friend in ME!” – a reference to the popular film’s theme song.Corona reached out to Hanks because of his role as Woody in the Toy Story films,according to his family.