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apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that certain 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 he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
Editorial, The New York Sun Sept. 21, 1897
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