Devon mother's birthday plea for son goes viral
A mother who said her 11-year-old son had no friends and pleaded on Facebook for people to wish him happy birthday says he has received hundreds of cards from around the world. Molly-Mole Povey, from Newton Abbot, in Devon, was upset when her son Roman said he had no friends at school. After her Facebook post went viral, more than 200 cards have arrived from as far away as Australia. Mrs Povey said: "The compassion shown has been truly inspiring." She said that she had written the post two weeks before her "beautiful special boy" turns 11 on Wednesday. Messages of birthday goodwill are continuing to arrive for Roman She said Roman was "a lovely adorable boy with difficulties". "I was just hoping a couple of school people might give him a card, but it went viral with people offering to send him cards from all over the world," she said. "Roman doesn't have any friends and often cries himself to sleep because of this. ...