In Da N00z - Well darn... yeah. that's me.

[cbelt3]

http://www.hlntv.com/article/2013/11/25/...?hpt=hp_t4

"Reddit user cbelt3 recounted struggling to hold back tears while playing Santa at an elementary school when two young siblings wished simply to keep their 7-year-old sister from dying from cancer. "Each of them perched on my knee, looked deep into my eyes and asked, quietly and from the depths of their hearts, ‘Please, Santa, I don't want any toys. I don't want anything. I just want my baby sister to get better.'"

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The actual reddit posting. Yes. I'm the same guy there that I am here. Consistency is important to an engineer. Interesting that this news compiler took an internet phorum and made a news story out of it.

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/commen...?context=3

The original MRF posting:
http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1...msg-849838

[mikebw]

I remember you shared this with us a while ago, still a great story.

If it hasn't been posted online then it isn't news.

[lost in space]

I'd have lost it right then.

[mrlynn]

cbelt3, thanks for the link to your original post; I hadn't seen it. I sent it to my wife and kids.

In the early days of country music, they used to make songs about dying children and sad Christmases. Today urban sophisticates doubtless think them maudlin, but less than a hundred years ago in our country there was a lot of trouble and heartache, and music provided a shared commonwealth of sorrow, even a sort of comfort.

Of course today, there are still plenty of sad stories, but somehow they get lost in the raucous, glitzy, commercially-produced popular culture. Thanks for sharing that one with this small community.

/Mr Lynn

[digby]

Forget the time spent being a mall santa, how does someone have time to be on reddit and this forum?

(Or being on reddit and doing anything else?)

[Speedy]

Not all stories have happy endings.