Hotel Worker and Boy With Autism Bond Over Card Tricks, Mom Pens ‘Thank You’ Note​​

Hotel Worker and Boy With Autism Bond Over Card Tricks, Mom Pens ‘Thank You’ Note​​
Courtesy of Megan Griffin Haas
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An enduring friendship sparked between a thoughtful hotel worker and an inquisitive teen last year when the boy asked if he could demonstrate a card trick. The hotel worker happily obliged, having no idea at the time that the teen was autistic.

Kahlief Hill, then 39, took time out from his front desk duties at the Hampton Inn in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, on March 29, 2019, to watch Colin Haas’s card trick before teaching the boy, then 13, a favorite trick of his own.