Santa Makes Young Girl's Christmas Wish Come True - "bring my daddy home"

[The Straight Story]

Santa Makes Young Girl's Christmas Wish Come True

FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga -- Beau Ballenger believes in Santa Claus.
That's why the five year old Forsyth County girl entrusted him with her most heart-felt Christmas wish.

That's when the spirit of the season came up against the harshness of the real world and that's when a Christmas dream came true.

Only the magic of Santa Claus allows the jolly old elf to be so many places and do so many things this time of year.

But on this day Santa, who when he not at the North Pole looks a lot like the Cherokee County Fire Department's Tim Cavender, is taking time away from the North Pole to make a special trip to Forsyth County to see a little girl.

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"I said, 'what would you like for Santa to bring you home for Christmas?' And I was expecting to hear maybe a doll or anything that a girl would like to have," Santa/Cavender said. "And surprisingly she turned to Santa and she said: 'Santa, i would like for you to bring my daddy home.'"

Beau's father is a Staff Sergeant serving in Afghanistan. It was a difficult wish, even for Santa.

"You hear the standard request for you know, for the train sets and the dolls," said Santa/Cavender. "But when you hear a child ask for her daddy to come back home," he said, not finishing the sentence.

But what Beau Bellinger didn't know, and what Santa soon found out, the Army was sending her daddy home for Christmas.

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