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LETTERS TO SANTA
As you can see - beginning on page 7 - it turned out to be a whole lot of laughing and a lot of typing. We asked for children's letters to Santa Claus, and we got what we wished for. If you had asked us on Saturday, we got way more than we wished for. But as you read them, we hope you enjoy them as much as we did. If your child's letter is in here, we know you'll be interested. But even if you don't have children or grandchildren who submitted a letter, take time to read some of them. Now, we do have to point out that they aren't entirely innocent. It amazed us that while many of the children couldn't spell dirt bike bicycle, they could spell Wii, Xbox and Hannah Montana with a lot of accuracy. Marketing and advertising obviously do work. But without parents - for the most part - having any input in the letters, the children were left to their own devices. So we get to see what's really in their heads - and there is a lot of innocence. From the little girl who wants nothing for Santa except to simply get a letter from him to an inexplicable call for silver bells, and the numerous questions for Mr. Claus, we were engaged. And we hope you will be, too. But all of them weren't so great. We edited out a couple of lines from some of the letters. Ones like: "I wish my mother and father wouldn't yell at each other." We'll send that one on to the North Pole for his consumption - not ours. Whatever parents buy their children for Christmas this year is none of our business. But we hope that you all remember and help instill in your children that it's not so much a holiday of receiving as it is giving. It's certainly reminded us. Merry Christmas from all of us at the Bullard Banner News. | |||||
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