Over 189K cards for Addie keep Fountain Green post office busy


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FOUNTAIN GREEN — Love and kindness continue to flood the mailbox of a 6-year-old girl with a terminal brain disease, and the cards for Addie Fausett aren’t slowing down.

The overwhelming response for a little girl is about much more than cards and letters though. It has brought the community together, far beyond the amount of mail that is flooding into the Fountain Green post office.

Today, just 19,000 cards arrived to the post office after 30,000 arrived last Thursday, 40,000 Friday, but Monday was the biggest day yet.

"Monday we had nine helpers in here. I mean 100,000 cards is a lot of cards in that back room back there, they had to take two loads so it has been busy, but it has been fun,” Barbara Gordon, the Fountain Green postmaster said.

The postmaster believes the letters pouring in for Addie, have added a special feeling in town: "I think it is the charity people have for someone who is sick and is terminal,” Gordon said.

Addie’s family is getting some extra help in order to go through the tens of thousands of cards.

The couch in their living room is buried in a sea of cards and letters.

Employees in the city office spent their lunch breaks Wednesday putting the cards on strings to hang in the city building for everyone in the community to enjoy.

“It brings out the Christmas spirit in everyone," Lynsey Zeeman said. "You can feel it just opening every card."


Monday we had nine helpers in here. I mean 100,000 cards is a lot of cards in that back room back there, they had to take two loads so it has been busy, but it has been fun.

–Barbara Gordon, Fountain Green postmaster


“Most of the ones I have gone through are from little children and the love they have for another little child has just been amazing to me,” Lola Stewart said.

Addie's neighbors believe a Christmas card is a simple way for people to show their love to a little girl fighting a terminal illness.

"I honestly believe this will help them through some hard times in the future,” Michelle Walker said.

While Addie's family only asked for cards, people have been so generous, even sending gifts. Packages are stacked to the ceiling in their kitchen.

Addie also plans on sharing the gifts with local charities, allowing her to brighten Christmas for other children.

“Everywhere there are people who need things at Christmastime and if we can make another kid's Christmas better, you know, everybody made Addie's good so I’d like to help others,” Tami Fausett, Addie's mother said.

On Dec. 23 at 6 p.m., there will be a chance for the community to celebrate Christmas with Addie and her family with the town's first-ever Christmas light parade here on Main Street.

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