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2 Dear Letters to Santa readers, Let’s face it: 2020 has been a tough year, and you’d be forgiven if you found it hard to summon up some Christmas spirit. But as is often the case, we can learn something from the children. Their enthusiasm for Christmas hasn’t dimmed, as you’ll see in these letters from grade-schoolers throughout the Sauk Valley. Their hopes for the holiday remind us all that there’s still plenty of Christmas joy to go around. We hope you take a moment to read their merry missives. You may notice the occasional spelling misstep in some of the letters; that’s because we’re printing the notes as is, in all their child-like charm. But, heck, who could blame these tykes for a stumble on the keyboard here and there? They’re writing to Santa, after all, and they were probably pretty darn excited – and we suspect the jolly old elf won’t put anyone on his naughty list for a misspelled word or two. First, we’d like to thank all the children whose letters to Santa fill the pages of this special section. May all your holiday hopes and wishes come true. We’d also like to thank our readers and advertisers, without whom this section wouldn’t be possible. And last but not least, Santa’s honorary elves: the teachers who gathered up all the letters and sent them in. We wish all of them a very Merry Christmas! From all of us at Sauk Valley Media
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