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Letters to Santa reveal Christmas wishes and family notes
A trove of handwritten children and adults requests for Christmas gifts. Wish lists include dolls Baby Alive Go Go boots bicycles recorders and toy cars. Adults request clothes tools a typewriter piano and a stereo while noting relatives and places such as Del Rio and Santa Claus.
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Winkie
Santa Claus
Annette Outley
Santa
Talsa
PaPa Hale
del Rio
Mommy
Daddy
Granny
Grandpa