Little Danny of Foxborough hasn't got much time to live. 

But he's gotten much love to live through the biggest battle of his young life - a brain tumor that is inoperable.

He had one little wish for his 6th birthday: to receive cards in the mail with his name on them.

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By Friday, his birthday, more than a hundred thousand cards and gift packages had poured in from all over the world, from school children and adults alike, each one responding to viral calls announcing Danny's wish.

Daniel Nickerson was diagnosed with a kind of brain tumor called "diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma" or DIPG last fall.

It is a tumor that grows on the brainstem and affects all functions of the nervous system.  DIPG is considered in medical circles as one cancer type that is resistant to chemotherapy.

Doctors said it is unlikely that Danny would survive the inoperable tumor, so his parents had pulled him out of school to undergo chemotherapy in hopes that they would at least have him around a bit longer.

Carley Nickerson wanted her son to have a special 6th birthday, and wrote the Attleboro Sun Chronicle to run a story about Danny's wish. He loves receiving cards, she said.

Soon after the paper ran Danny's story on front page, Reddit and Twitter were flooded with hashtags calling on netizens to send cards to the boy. Many posted photos of cards and gifts they were sending to Danny.

Celebrities Ashton Kutcher and Lil Wayne urged their fans to send some love to Danny.

Toward the end of this week, the Foxborough post office in Greater Boston had an entire wing filled with packages addressed to Danny, some coming all the way from Japan and the rest of Asia.

As a highlight of his birthday, Danny arrived at the post office in a fire truck accompanied by local firefighters to pick up more of his gifts. He was greeted with a trumpet rendering of birthday music played by his grandfather.

Later that day, the boy was shown in photos romping amid a huge pile of boxes, carts and trays filled with his birthday packages. Some gifts were of Mario and Lego, two of his favorite things.

His mother said it would take them a long time to finish opening the more than 100,000 cards and 7,000 packages.

Little Danny, doctors said, may not live past spring. 

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