Letter: The truth about Santa will out
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: Aged four, I was taken to see Father Christmas, seated in his grotto at our local department store. Questioned as to my wants for Christmas, I replied "a fairy bike" (as children's bicycles were then termed). Some 66 years later, I remember his words to this day: "You shall have it, my son." The much-wanted present never materialised - how could it have, given my parents' financial situation? As far as I was concerned, there existed no need for any further outside influence to destroy my belief in that particular myth.
Yours faithfully,
John Douch
Wellingborough,
Northamptonshire
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