Only 9
more days until Christmas!
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the rush of Christmas, some of us have come to almost loathe poor
Santa Claus (or at least begun to dread seeing him sitting on his
throne at the shopping mall).
Here's something that always
reminds me why I like him.
Little eight year old Virginia
O'Hanlon, of 115 West 95th Street in New York, wrote to the New York
Sun, in 1897, and said that some of her friends said Santa does not
exist. She went on, 'Papa says, 'If you see it in The Sun,
it's so'. Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?'
And this is what editor Francis P. Church wrote ...
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 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.
We would have no enjoyment except in sense and sight.
the eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be
extinguished.
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