Santa Claus isn’t a myth.
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Santa Claus is very real.
The young father stood in line at the Kmart layaway counter, wearing dirty clothes and worn-out boots. With him were three small children.
He asked to pay something on his bill because he knew he wouldn’t be able to afford it all before Christmas. Then a mysterious woman stepped up to the counter.
“She told him, ‘No, I’m paying for it,’” recalled Edna Deppe, assistant manager at the store in Indianapolis. “He just stood there and looked at her and then looked at me and asked if it was a joke. I told him it wasn’t, and that she was going to pay for him. And he just busted out in tears.”
All across the country, anonymous “donors” are paying off layaway accounts at K-Mart. People in this country are hurting, some barely able to keep up with their bills. But all the while there is a quiet force of people trying to help out those in need and give them a happier holiday. Probably one they’ll never forget.
This is Santa Claus. Don’t call it a fairy tale.
