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In Our View: Christmas brings blessings of human bonds
The Columbian
Published: December 25, 2019, 6:03am
No matter your faith, today is America’s most significant holiday, one built on a foundation of Christian belief and tradition, but enriched by more than a century of family, charity and celebration of the human bond. And don’t forget Santa Claus!
It was way back in 1897 (oddly enough, in September, not December) when New York Sun editorial writer Francis Pharcellus Church assured Virginia O’Hanlon, 8, that yes, there is a Santa Claus, despite her friends being “affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age.”
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