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By Alice Felts " '
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hen my daughter i little girl she somehow got it in her head that Mrs. Claus made all die clothes that Santa left under the tree on Christmas day. She would look at the little dresses with lace and ribbons with rhiltfoth delight and say “Look what Mrs. Claus made for me.*
One day, months after the holidays, she and I were shopping at the local mall. She opened up her small cloth purse from Mrs. Claus and . started to cry. I asked her what was wrong and she replied, “This purse that Mrs. Claus made me says ‘Made in Japan.'
Caught offguard and needing an immediate ^ response, I said, “Oh, ^ ^ Kimberly, the government ^ ^ makes Santa put labels in | everything," v'fs ■'
She brightened up and said,. “Okay." Her belief in governmental regulations was as -— » —I
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