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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYes, Donnie, there is a Santa Claus
https://www.nysun.com/editorials/yes-virginia/68502/(snip)
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
(snip)
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.
(end snip)
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
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Gothmog
(145,558 posts)1. Santa is real
AwakeAtLast
(14,133 posts)4. Ken Olin
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)2. ...
Brother Buzz
(36,463 posts)3. Yes Donnie, there is a Sanity Clause. It's called the 25th amendment