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A letter from Santa: St. Nick is all around us

How the kindness of a child reaffirmed the Christmas spirit

Dec 25, 2022
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As Santa and Mrs. Claus were leaving the Freeman Community Center on Dec. 15, we were a few steps away when I heard a young lady of perhaps 9 years exclaim that we were not the real Santa and Mrs. Claus.

My first intent was to immediately correct her error, but then I thought that I could certainly lose this debate. After all, she was at least in part ri…

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