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Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus!

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Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus! Editorial: Don DeForge, VMD 26Dec2013 Reprinted from Opinion: New Haven Register 24Dec2013 Editorial Eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of the New York Sun, and the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial September 21, 1897. History's most printed newspaper editorial.....credited to Francis Pharcellus Church. It begins: 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, newspaper, it's so." Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus? Signed, Virginia O'Hanlon-115 West Ninety-Fifth Street-September, 1897 RESPONSE: "Virginia, your little friends are wrong.  They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age.  They do not believe what they cannot 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, ar