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Three Christmas stories


This hour of Midday features Truman Capote reading his story "A Christmas Memory," Garrison Keillor doing a Christmas "News from Lake Wobegon," and Dan Olson reading the famous 1897 New York Sun Christmas letter "Is there a Santa Claus."

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