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| We take _____ in answering at once and thus | |
| prominently the ______ below, expressing at the | |
| same time our ______ gratification that its faithful | |
| ______ is numbered among the friends of The Sun: | |
| Dear ______— | |
| I am 8 years old. Some of my _____ friends say there is | |
| no Santa Claus. ______ says, “If you see it in The Sun, | |
| it’s so.” Please tell me the ______, is there a Santa Claus? | |
| Virginia ______ | |
| Virginia, your little friends are ______. They have been | |
| affected by the ______ of a skeptical age. They do | |
| not believe except they see. They ______ that nothing | |
| can be ______ is not comprehensible by their little | |
| minds. All ______, Virginia, whether they be men’s or | |
| children’s, are little. In this great ______ of ours, | |
| man is a mere ______, an ant, in his intellect as | |
| compared with the boundless world about ______, as | |
| measured by the ______ capable of grasping the | |
| whole of truth and ______. | |
| Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He ______ as | |
| certainly as ______ and generosity and devotion exist, | |
| and you _____ that they abound and give to your life | |
| its highest ______ and joy. Alas! how dreary would be | |
| the ______ if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as | |
| dreary as if there were no ______. There would be | |
| no childlike ______ then, no poetry, no romance to make | |
| tolerable this ______. We should have no | |
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| enjoyment, except in sense and _______. The eternal light | |
| with which ______ fills the world would be extinguished. | |
| Not ______ in Santa Claus! You might as well not | |
| believe in ______. You might get your papa to hire men | |
| to watch in all the ______ on Christmas eve to catch | |
| Santa Claus, but even if you did not ______ Santa Claus | |
| coming down, what would that ______? Nobody sees | |
| Santa Claus, but that is no ______ that there is no Santa | |
| Claus. The most real ______ in the world are those that | |
| neither children nor ______ can see. Did you ever see | |
| fairies dancing on the ______? Of course not, but that’s | |
| no proof that they are not ______. Nobody can conceive | |
| or imagine all the ______ there are unseen and | |
| ______ in the world. | |
| You tear apart the baby’s _____ and see what makes | |
| the noise ______, but there is a veil covering the | |
| unseen world which not the ______ man, nor even | |
| the united ______ of all the strongest men that ever | |
| lived could tear apart. Only faith, ______, love, | |
| romance, can ______ aside that curtain and view and | |
| picture the supernal beauty and ______ beyond. Is it all | |
| real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is ______ | |
| else _____ and abiding. | |
| No Santa Claus! Thank ______! he lives and lives forever. | |
| A _______ years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times | |
| 10,000 years from now, he will ______ to make glad | |
| the _______ of childhood. | |
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