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   It snowed again. My seventh Christmas was round the corner. I dreamed of getting the present from Father Christmas until my elder sister dropped the bomb. “ there is no Father Christmas.”

 I ran to my grandmother’s house, for she always told the truth. Grandmother was at home. I told____everything. “No Father Christmas?” she was a little____. “Don’t believe it. Put on your coat, and let’s go.”

“Go? Where, Grandma? I asked.

“Kerby’s Store.”

As we walked through its doors. Grandma handed me the dollars and said “Take the ____and buy something for someone who needs it. I’ll wait for you in the car.” Then she turned and walked out of the Kerby’s.

For a few seconds, I just stood there, holding the money, wondering____to buy, and who to buy it for.

I thought of____I knew my family, my friends, my neighbors …I suddenly thought of Bobbie Decar, a ____ with a bad breath and messy hair. He sat right behind me____ Mrs. Polack’s class. Bobbie____went to any party during the winter. His mother always wrote a note, telling the teacher that he had a cough,____we all knew that he didn’t have a cough, and he didn’t have a coat. I decided to buy Bobbie a red warm coat____he would like.

That evening, grandma helped me wrap the coat in Christmas paper and ribbons, and____”To Bobbie. From Father Christmas” on it. Grandma told me Father Christmas never let people know that he____ them. Then she drove me over to Bobbie’s home, telling that I was helping Father Christmas____the presents.

Grandma parked the car along the street, and we hid behind the trees near Bobbie’s home. Then Grandma said to me. “ All right, Father Christmas get going.”

I took a deep breath, rushed to his front door, put the present down____the door, rang the doorbell and flew back to the safety of the____and Grandma. We waited breathlessly in the dark for the front door to open. Finally, it did and there stood Boobie.

That night, I realized that Father Christmas was alive and well, and we were on his team.