writing letters for Santa
This article - Letters to Santa flood Alaskan town - brings back so many wonderful memories. For those who don't go to the article, it's about a little town in Alaska called North Pole that gets a lot of letters to Santa this time of year. Volunteers write replies for Santa as he is a very busy guy. :)
We lived in Fairbanks, which is about 12 miles from North Pole, and I loved volunteering as one of Santa's helpers. Some letters broke my heart, but the experience is one I'll never forget. It also gave me a special status with my two youngest cousins who were at just the right ages to be big Santa fans during the years we lived in Alaska. They wrote me directly as well as Santa each year because they were convinced I had some special access to him.
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