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    He remembered the burning embarrassment of being called “weird” by the other kids, the whispers that followed him down the hallways, and the teachers who looked at him with gentle, pitying concern.

    He’s just talking to himself again, they’d say.

    But Santa wasn’t talking to himself. He was talking to the lady in the faded floral dress sitting by the swings, or the boy with the bruised knees standing near the fence.

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