“People just need somebody who cares.”
Back in 1897, an 8-year-old girl wrote a letter to the New York Sun asking “Is there a Santa Claus?” Her name was Virginia. The response, by lead editorial writer Francis P. Church, became the most republished editorial in the history of U.S. journalism.
“Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus,” Church famously wrote. “He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias.”
Fast forward 125 years and In a cool twist of fate, it seems that a woman named Virginia and Santa Claus? Are one and the same.
A Mom Meets a Struggling Homeless Family
Virginia Finch and her daughters were delivering Thanksgiving meals to the homeless in Greeley, Colorado when they met a struggling family living in a broken-down converted school bus behind a gas station.
Eric and Olivia, along with their 3 small children, ages 5, 14 months, and 1 month, had been traveling across the U.S. when they became stranded in Greeley, Colorado.
Broke and homeless and with the snow and cold weather setting in, the family’s situation was dire and getting worse.
Virginia knew she had to do something.
“There’s no way I’m going to leave a baby with no crib for a bed on Christmas,” she thought to herself. Then she got an idea. A wonderful, amazing, remarkable idea.
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