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The Christmas Present<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n by<\/span><\/p>\n Maria Elena Alonso(-Sierra)\u00a0\u00a91970<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cTo dream is not so hard a thing to do,\u201d said Jimmy. \u201cI dream all the time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The wagon moved slowly and clumsily along the dusty path. It was December 21, 1835. A poor family was migrating. They had lost everything because of the industrialization in the East and their only hope remained in vast, wild land that lay before them.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cJimmy,\u201d the woman said. \u201cDon\u2019t get too illusioned, my boy. Do not dream of things that will probably not come true.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cBut, mama,\u201d said the child. \u201cDon\u2019t you believe that Santa will come and leave me some presents? Don\u2019t you have faith in him?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The tender, delicate woman smiled. How could she tell a seven-year-old boy that Santa did not exist? How could she destroy that beautiful, innocent illusion he had?<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWell, Jimmy,\u201d she said. \u201cWe will wait and see what happens. We\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The days passed slowly, but Jimmy did not give up hoping. He was filled with so much joy and faith that he did not even stop to analyze his mother\u2019s words.<\/span><\/p>\n Finally, the big day arrived. It was December 24th. Dinner was already over and he didn\u2019t hesitate to jump into bed and say his prayers.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWhat are we going to do, Alex? What are we going to tell Jimmy? It breaks my heart to know he will be so disillusioned.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cDon\u2019t worry, darling. We\u2019ll have to tell him the truth \u2013 there is no<\/i> <\/b>Santa! He is a young man now. He will understand.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt seems so cruel to disillusion such hopes,\u201d said the mother tearfully. \u201cIt is so cruel.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Jimmy was already settled in his bed and saying his prayers. \u201cSanta, I don\u2019t ask for much. I only ask for a pony like the little Indian boy I saw had. Thank you for listening, Santa, and have a happy journey. Amen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Jimmy closed his eyes, heard the sound of horse\u2019s hoofs, and fell asleep.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cMom, Dad, look! Look what Santa brought me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The couple was puzzled. They hadn\u2019t placed anything out for Jimmy. They rushed to where Jimmy was and received quite a surprise. There, tied to the back of the wagon was a beautiful pinto pony, saddled with a deerskin which had this word written on it. AMEN<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cYou see, Mama. I told you he would come.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Here are the photos from the school newspaper.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hello, everyone, and Merry Christmas!! Love that my friend Karina Kantas has invited me to this event. Here you will find all my works, sample pages, reviews, buy links, and other writings (in Other Writings page heading). Feel free to explore!! Now, for the short-short.\u00a0(NOTE: This whimsical, very naive, short-short was written by me … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.webcraftersdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.webcraftersdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.webcraftersdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.webcraftersdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.webcraftersdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.webcraftersdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2784,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.webcraftersdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions\/2784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.webcraftersdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.webcraftersdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.webcraftersdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.webcraftersdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.webcraftersdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Elf-out-of-bag-Glorita-1970-192x300.jpg\")
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