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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 
."