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ALICE COOPER Saves Christmas For 12-Year-Old Fan

December 26, 2006

Shamus Toomey of the Chicago Sun-Times reports:

Alice Cooper saved Christmas for 12-year-old Carlos "CJ" Cardenas.

Well, Alice Cooper and a team of surgeons at Rush University Medical Center.

CJ, a sixth-grader from Lake Villa, was feeling pretty down last week as he lay in a hospital bed, recovering from surgeries to remove a terribly painful and aggressive tumor in his mouth.

Then came a package in the mail from an unlikely hero for a preteen — 58-year-old rocker Alice Cooper. The Detroit native had gotten word about CJ's plight and autographed a blue Fender Squire electric guitar for him.

"C.J., You Rock! Alice Cooper," the silver-inked message reads.

Cooper had already been CJ's favorite musician — he has a closet full of Cooper T-shirts and a room full of Cooper videos, CDs and posters. CJ even put on Cooper's trademark face paint for a summer concert in Waukegan.

His fascination with Cooper — and also with the band KISS — somewhat perplexes his 45-year-old mom, as both bands' heydays were in line with her generation — not CJ's. But CJ knows what he likes.

So his mom's boss helped get word to Cooper about the boy's condition. And the rock star came through.

Read the rest of the article at www.suntimes.com.

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