El Niño Dios: The Unpublished Letters
Until a generation ago, Mexican and Latin American children barely knew about Santa. Especially in rural Mexico.
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In 1897 an eight-year-old girl named Virgina O’Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of The Sun to ask him if there was really a Santa Claus (as her friends said, it was a pious lie).
Editor Francis Pharcellus Church’s response, a lengthy letter addressed to Virginia titled…
