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A local New Hampshire paper I spent a few years freelancing for, Foster’s Daily Democrat, does well what local newspapers all too often forget to do–tell the stories of the community it is based in. This week the paper chose to tell the story of my grandfather’s 1936 Christmas. It’s got all the good holiday story stuff: Poverty, brothers who care even as they jibe, a Dear Santa letter and….dolls.
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