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Net time your numt fives you a pair of unden ear as a gift, think about it . . . it's better than nothing, J!a Arm Gnukmi. a uf4umartt at fan fun Ihgh St AV, ftyyt nrtting, tpartt and maac. P A Santa From I, Dennuu. remember one Otrisimas nben my mnm's best It tend totj my hrotfier and I not .u tell her youngest daughter, flesh, that Same h ain't real. We te Nh vkouhln'1. hul promised He connived her older mv ier Megan into doing il. Once ien 'Megan actually told that Heck Kama Hasn't real, hc took over ittc situation and insisted that .her parents had hed It) her and rthat her mom and dad Here just hare. No parents ever approached me on the subject, because they knew we were right, stales referring to the fact that Santa is just a he. I, Marcus, believe the sublim- inal message encoded in the Krlnglc Conspiracy is this: It's rmt good hr you to lie, but it's OK for us to he to you. It's OK for adults to do had things, just not kids. Hello, your kids are going to grow up to be oversensitive mo good next year. Obviously, they reason, they were like little demons, or else Santa would have brought them nhat they had asked for. Why perpetuate a myth that punishes children for being what she and Dennis taught us. W'e don't regret that Mom and Dad never told us a bit guy in a red suit jumped down our chimney to leave us gifts. Besides focusing on Santa every Christmas and focusing on having to be talented Hell-rounde- by PW CfvpmorW Homeless good, ne got to experience much more at Christmas than brown-nosin- g, Wc didnt have to go through the psychological torture and mental scarring of realizing dial our parents had bed to us. look at us now - ncre pro- ductive. Oeisimas - CoeofiMl by tiocfsay I enwyer The Ogden Rescue Mission can be reached at 62MJrx. The address is IV23 Wall, in Ogden, dead months nhen you aren't and there are minions throughW eber counties feeling the strain of a turkey, toys out Davis and need that weeks. help. three your ail in and We are so glad and grateful In tlx ten year that I have for all the donation and service been here, I have seen the number of donators go from a few we receive. We lake nhat we get hundred lo several thousand just and are harpy with everything for our mimon," Langston said. the public does," said Langston. Sarah Thompum, a Senior at The mission keeps track of all the donations it receives through Roy High St hoot, hies to sim, the mail, and is very happy wuh read and hang out uiih herrit mb. She's also a tmmboarder. the response it gets. from rons nho go to a psychiatric! evpoor? Worse yet, in our minds, is ery Hcckend. And they'll say, Junta didn't give me my liar the featuring of Santa Horshtp-pin- g heGI Joe doll when I Has ten iiahy Jesus at the manager, The deal Is nhen you put a yean old. I think he begot me. Mom! I believed in him, nhy did fantasy figure in the same conhe heget me? I did every thing I text as a religious personage, Has supposed to! I Has a good you are giving a child the mesgirlboy, I played hr the rules sage that one is equal to the othand I lost. Why has he forsaken er," Mary says. lather both are me?" real or both are fantasy. I am These nords are common, of- not equaling Santa Claus Hath ten heard from the lips of poor ihc spirit of Christmas. If chilchildren. The poor and destitute dren are taught the historic acmake up more than half the count of Sami Nicholas, nho Horld population. Why should a was a real person, who honored kid he penalized at ChristmasChrist by helping the poor at time for being poor? The parents Christmas, then children don't don't have enough money to buy need to rely on a fabricated charnhat the kids nant, so the kids acter to meet their needs. Hut ask Santa for the gifts. On hopefully they will learn that Christmas morning the kids God loves them and gave the anake lo a scrag sty Christmas best gift at Christmas. Jesus tree and all the gills they didn't Christ, his son, and will meet ask Santa for. The kids suHe a their needs." This was the rationale for cry and then resolve to be extra Cr-p- teenagers. We didn't need that Gl Joe action figure or Itarbie doll from Santa. Ail ne needed Has to know that our parents loved us enough to tell us the truth and that they were brave enough to take credit for nhat wc received instead of laying the blame if we didn't like a gift, or giving (he glory if we did, to that fat, Jenny-Oraidropout Santa Claus. Drnnbla Whhkr, a senior at Roy High Si hoot, tayt the hies music A LOT and cnjiys writing artU Ut about touchy, controversial S until tlx holiday are ever. Give your time in tlx summer or tlx g Trends ing shirts from close pal just because they would look o cute wuh your new pants? Will males appear in commercials and discuss incredibly embarrassing situations occurring in their bodies? I certainly hope not, but who From 5 comes to mind. To the untrained layperson, a word like sissy" comes up more quickly. I think. All I'm saying is this: It's not like it isn't hard enough to figure out the opposite gender, but it used to be that we could figure out our own gender fairly well What next? Will your best friend suddenly stop talking to you and refuse to tell you why he's mad? Will you start borrow g subjects. Marcus llltisler, In the ninth gnute at Sand RUge Junior High Si hoof, b on the Journalism staff at school and hies to skateboard, sno hoard and listen to music. 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