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daily nebraskan Christmas supplement
friday, december 8, 1978
Pre-Christmas SPECIAL
for that special someone on your gift
list . . . or yourself.
SOFT CONTACT LENSES
Includes one pair soft
contacts chemical care kits.
Eye examination not included
Offer good
thru Dec. 31,
1978
For an appointment, or more information, just dial 475-EYES
The Spectacle Shop
West Gate Shopping Center
West "On Street . . . Lincoln
Our Christmas Tree
Is a Puzzling Gift
This unique new puzzle is shaped like a
Christmas tree! The finished puzzle has more than
500 pieces and is 30 inches tall. $6.50. One of
our many Christmas puzzles by Springbok.
$3.00 to $7.00
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1978 Hallmark Cards. Inc.
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Shattered dreams live again
By Pete Mason
I was five-years-old when I first was con
fronted with the dreadful possibility there
was no Santa Cluas. The harsh news came
from the son of a local mortician, approp
iately enough.
Even at five years of age I instinctively
knew that a mortician's son would be privy
to dark, depressing information and I was
duly impressed by his cynical pronounce
ment. As a matter of fact 1 was so impress
ed that 1 bopped him. He was completely
unimpressed and bopped me back several
times.
All in all, it was a pretty bleak day. Not
only were the first seeds of doubt concern
ing Santa's existence planted in my brain,
but I also learned that the world is full of
injustice and that good guys sometimes
finish second. I also learned that I had a
glass nose. I even discovered the meaning
of irony. The bright red blood on my
white, starched shirt perfectly matched the
color of the suit worn by the entity for
whose existence I was fighting. That's a
pretty big load for a five-year-old kid.
I ran home, my red badge of courage
still running down my shirt front. My
father was impressed with my bravery and
my commitment to fight for what I
believed. My mother was apalled.
"He's begun fighting," she wailed. "It's
only a matter of time, now. First, more
fights, then stealing cars, then bank
robbery and before you know it he's on
the Ten Most Wanted list. Ill never be able
to show my face in public again."
My father calmed her down and took
me to the bathroom where he cleaned me
up and gave me a rousing speech about
faith and the cynical mind, about optimism
and the true spirit of Christmas. It was sort
of a bathroom version of "Yes, Virginia
. . .", little of which I understood.
I got the gist of it though. He was tell
ing me that although Santa Claus was not
a real person in the hard, physical sense
(flying across the sky, silhouetted against
the moon; parking his eight tiny reindeer
and sleigh on the roof; managing somehow,
despite his corpulence, to slide down the
chimney into the fireplace with a
humongus bag of toys; filling the stock
ings) he truly existed in the minds of all
who saw Christmas through the eyes of a
child, in the proper spirit.
It helped a little but for the next few
years I still wondered who the heck was
finishing off the milk and cookies we put
out on the mantlepiece every Christmas
Eve.
By the time I was eight I knew dear old
Dad was scarfing up Santa's snack, and I
took it upon myself to inform my two
younger sisters of this insidious shame.
Continued on page 13.
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