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deminks

(11,017 posts)
Tue Dec 25, 2018, 10:53 AM Dec 2018

Yes, Donnie, there is a Santa Claus

https://www.nysun.com/editorials/yes-virginia/68502/

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Dear Editor—

I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?

Virginia O'Hanlon
115 West Ninety Fifth Street


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Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence.

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The spirit of giving, Donnie. It is what makes us different from u.
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Yes, Donnie, there is a Santa Claus (Original Post) deminks Dec 2018 OP
Santa is real Gothmog Dec 2018 #1
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