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2.97s(BOTH GASP) Santa Claus!
2.29sThat's right. It's Santa Claus.
1.83sAnd you've got to listen to me.
6.36sThe reason there was no Christmas this year is that this man is sick, very sick. And he needs our help.
3.59sHe's been bludgeoned by years of greed and avarice.
3.45sThe workload of filling our Christmas lists has overwhelmed him.
2.9sAnd at the rate he's going, he may not make it another year.
2.52sBut there's a way for us to help him.
6.27sIf all of us, everywhere, can just cut back our demands and ask for only one Christmas present every year,
1.97sthere may still be hope.
2.48sI know it's in our nature to resist sacrifice,
3.22seven in hard times, but if we don't,
2.82swe may have to give up Christmas altogether.
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3.42sWell, folks, you heard it here first on Channel Five News.
1.63sLooks like we have a choice.
2.84sOne Christmas gift a year for each one of us.
1.57sCan we live with that?
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1.23sI can.