"Dear Timothy,

I want to be your new pen pal.

I am an old man, 77 years old, but I love kids; and though we have not met I love you already.

I live in Texas - I will write you from time to time - Good Luck. G. Walker"

Luckily, Timothy never caught on to the hints in Bush's letters, and didn't find out who his sponsor was until he had graduated from the program.

"After a while, my executive assistant, Angie Lathrop, took over the sponsorship, and after Timothy graduated at 17, she flew to the Philippines to meet him," Stafford said. "That's when she told him who his sponsor really was."

Timothy was stunned, Stafford said. He really couldn't believe the man he had been writing letters to was once the President of a nation.

Stafford said that Timothy told Lathrop he had no idea, and that the revelation was life-changing.

That was the last time the nonprofit heard from Timothy, despite efforts to locate him, Stafford said

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/12/18/us/george-hw-bush-sponsored-filipino-child-trnd/index.html

They killed Timmy