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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Sarah Ping

Care home resident, 100, ‘spoiled rotten’ after receiving 345 birthday cards

Woodstock Residential Care Centre

A care home resident who turned 100 years old has said she was “spoiled rotten” after receiving 345 cards and being serenaded by an Elvis Presley tribute act for her birthday.

Daphne Hikin, of Woodstock Residential Care Centre in Sittingbourne, Kent, had set a challenge to receive 100 cards to mark one card for every year of her life but with the help of local radio and social media, received more than three times that amount with one card signed by the King and Queen.

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