A Christmas Story [Archive] - Debate Policy

Perianne

12-22-2015, 12:41 PM

A Christmas Story (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/22/nyregion/a-chimneys-poignant-surprise-letters-santa-missed-long-ago.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0)

Thank you, sir. That was sweet. It touched my heart.

indago

12-25-2015, 12:05 PM

From The Associated Press 24 December 2015:
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Two weeks after a man went to repossess a car and instead ended up offering to help cover a woman's payments, his colleagues showed up with another surprise: stacks of Christmas gifts for her 10-year-old daughter.

A repo man from Relentless Recovery had come for Diana Parks' car but wept at the story of a single mother diagnosed with a pituitary tumor that gives her seizures and trouble walking. It made her unable to work as a pharmacy technician and forced her to drop out of Cleveland State University.

"I was working so hard so we could do better," she said. "And then I got sick."

He offered to give up half his pay until her delinquent car payments were caught up, but the company decided to cover those costs. Then the staff divvied up her daughter's holiday wish list.
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