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The post office has been inundated. It gets 12,000
a day. It has a team of 60 letter writers. They say children are confiding in Santa about their
fears. Perhaps parents are in the
about this. One child wrote: "This year, more than the
, I need magic and to believe in
." Another put a mask inside her envelope so Santa would not spread the
. The post office said the letters to Santa are a kind of
for children in
, especially those deprived of grandparents. It said: "Children are putting into
everything they have felt during this
."