Extra - 1995-12-27 (partial)
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Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)
[0:00] the heart for the ears.
[0:02] >> Because of a letter to Santa, an
[0:04] 8-year-old boy will start the new year
[0:06] with a new look.
[0:08] >> I'm going to be a regular boy.
[0:10] >> 8-year-old Mark Amador finally got the
[0:12] best Christmas present of his life.
[0:14] Those bandages on his head will come off
[0:16] and his ears will look normal. [music]
[0:18] >> They were too big to people making fun
[0:21] of me.
[0:22] >> The second grader from Tucson had ears
[0:24] that stuck out badly, almost at right
[0:27] angles to his head. Mark's mom, Abigail,
[0:29] says because of that, other kids were
[0:31] cruel to her son, comparing him to
[0:33] Disney's famous flying elephant.
[0:35] >> They call him Dumbo or they call him
[0:38] Keebler Al, or they go like this with
[0:40] their [music] hands, you know, they tell
[0:42] them fly away and stuff like that.
[0:44] >> The family had other problems as well.
[0:46] Abigail had no job. They'd been evicted
[0:49] and money for food was running out. Then
[0:52] came Mark's touching letter to Santa.
[0:54] >> Dear Santa, I am writing to tell you my
[0:56] [music] mom needs help bad. I hear her
[0:58] cry