missingchicklet
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OT: Merry Christmas!
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Merry Christmas ya filthy animals!!!
Merry Christmas to my HF Fam!
Merry Christmas to my HF Fam!
Which town would you rather live in?
Bedford Falls
Pottersville
Bedford Falls
Pottersville
Chief Nine
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Chief Nine
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Which town would you rather live in?
Bedford Falls
Pottersville
Watching it now! And I’m a Bedford Falls guy
Dear Editor—
I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?
Virginia O'Hanlon
115 West Ninety Fifth Street
Manhattan
Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?
Virginia O'Hanlon
115 West Ninety Fifth Street
Manhattan
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 to 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 should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The external light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies. You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there.
Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.
No Santa Claus! Thank God! He lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
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"Is There a Santa Claus?" reprinted from the September 21, 1897, number of The New York Sun.
In what has become a tradition for me I will watch Midnight Mass from St. Peter's in Rome. Always a beautiful setting & ceremony.
JRull86
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My wife got my pup and I matching PJs for XMas Eve. We're spoiled rotten.
22Brad Park
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Say a prayer for my daughter's Boyfriend please.Bad car accident yesterday and multiple surgeries today and tomorrow on the horizon.
ODAAT
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Merry Christmas friends
Spent the evening with my family by marriage, biggest gathering for this guy with me having only one sister and Mum was an only child, Dad and my Uncle never spoke until I was 30
So special being part of a great family and Hf is also like family at times, we agree, we agree to disagree, we fight, we fight dirty then we come back on here and do it all again and seem to enjoy it.
Many here have been huge supporters of me over my time here, complete strangers who were part of getting me through the loss of both parents, a pooch and many other scenarios.
Merry Christmas family
Spent the evening with my family by marriage, biggest gathering for this guy with me having only one sister and Mum was an only child, Dad and my Uncle never spoke until I was 30
So special being part of a great family and Hf is also like family at times, we agree, we agree to disagree, we fight, we fight dirty then we come back on here and do it all again and seem to enjoy it.
Many here have been huge supporters of me over my time here, complete strangers who were part of getting me through the loss of both parents, a pooch and many other scenarios.
Merry Christmas family
My initial plan was to spend Christmas in Evanston, Illinois with my son but my employer who provides TV trucks and crew asked me to be a unit manager and camera for the Celtics game today and they worked some magic with JetBlue to reverse the ticket and my son spent Christmas Eve in Cambridge.
It's all good
It's all good
Merry Christmas to all my Bruin friends!
GlenFeatherstone
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Merry Christmas to all. Enjoy your day with family and friends. Safe travels to all. And thank you to all the service men and women around the world who can’t be with their families today
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Merry Christmas everyone!
Had a rough go with two yankee swaps last night. And too much nog
Had a rough go with two yankee swaps last night. And too much nog
Chief Nine
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Please keep us all posted. I hope he’ll pull through this
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