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of us children but christmas time. stand for what do they wished for. for themselves their families their friends and even that animals like. us can't fool. what are their fears and waters. just can't understand. what do they want to know about the christ child do they believe. in me. and where does the christ child lives.
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she doesn't know she says only mummy and daddy know that. children sent thousands of letters to the christ child in him a stat in germany every year the town's name means heaven the city that's why we've taken a look at a few of the. 1 christ child i'm lisa and i'm 19 years old i wanted cooking class for christmas.
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and i went to the many nice things by long time because we were very sick mayberry's name me that wasn't fully cooked. unlike my saying so much fish. no not so no honey she recalls almost us. it was terrible shock. liza and 6 year old yulia both had leukemia almost at the same time. lisa met her brother david and their parents at a christmas party organized by the children's cancer fund during their chemotherapy many foods were too dangerous for the girls everything had to be completely sterile . and the money at the end of the strawberries and cherries and raspberries in our garden were all right and they couldn't eat them so we didn't eat them either
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because that's really hard for a child and. lisa and now allowed to eat everything again chemotherapy was 2 years ago since then liza and david have become inseparable just my point in this decision was to have them. close to us in a film with guns. but recently liza got some bad news here the mom of one of you so good relates to his mother got very sick last year she got a globe last stoma that's a very aggressive type of brain cancer and he's a was with us for a week while the diagnosis was being made it was so advanced that lisa needed somewhere to stay she wanted to get out of the house or stephen you know it was hard for her to see her mother sick to see the.
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christ child i'm i need a mate i want to see my grandparents and i saw him when i was little but now he's died. here christ child i live with my grandma my father died at 35 my mother at 44. so lori was to blame as my 3rd christmas without them but i remember them well. liza has settled in well with you and david the family have taken her in because 6 months ago lisa's mother died. and i have my
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memory dark for christmas. and i half of it myself. and the entity had at 1st it didn't make any gravy my mom there out in front of the oven and said make gravy make gravy math skills and math . just. the artists when she came to us she hadn't acknowledged that her mother was dead. only visited her mother's grave once it was a huge effort to persuade her i said let's go again but she wouldn't. of us used on them in the crowd. can you tell me it's back in the week i have 2 children here where i worry about a relapse. when it is lisa's 9 and alone so of course i want to help. well done women into
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and have it made if i put it on my had when i was coach and so went out white man. that's where it's at mealtimes. come to pass always cool me the queen bee when i did. have. any pain you're not going to mama we talk about her mother you know she talks about what christmas was like at home and what they did i don't know what it will be like butte they'll definitely be sad moments . we'll deal with it as if to come. dear christ child i would like a new bad because my old one has collapsed. my
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friend has to move away i hope she finds a flat without estate agents. here cries child the only thing i really want is for my dad to stop telling my mom during her neck you're lucky with mary and. never argue. i want you to give mom a boyfriend i'm somehow away from dot. understand i want to warn africa to stop. my cake and i want a hamster. cuisine. last christmas my cousins got hamsters but i didn't. tell. my cousins
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parents are separating. that's why everyone focused on the hamster. it wasn't great last christmas. that's why we're celebrating alone this year. was. god. the bills from the st maximillian children's choir don't just think of themselves at christmas whether they have fins or hooves they want the christ child. to give to that animals. can close to my heart because my horse is very own. i wish it could live longer to me just as just langham game. capital i have an old granma lives next door she's
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a proper horsey grandma and. the her. her are. even dear christ child i hope our fish will survive this terrible disease and i could be since the copies have died already it was awful for me and my family my family. and the zebrafish are sick too now we had 51 is very sick 2 are in sick and 2 are a little bit sick. are young guppies have got it too now only 2 are still alive they didn't die from the disease they were eaten by the other fish. i received they're still alive and just now and pushed back and was. guest on his
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desk but their names change daily. for. design and when. they should get a christmas present. put the tap block that they should get food to different types of food so we can see what they like more fast next banking's anguish and fun and in fact i doubt fine but i also want to laminate a picture say merry christmas for them and hang it in the water. there's the differential of wind and power. christ child i really want to visit the horse whisperer with my grandad.
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dear christ child i really want to see my dad catch again ringback. christ child my dog moritz chivas because he's cold my mum says he can't wear pull over because it looks silly. hates christmas because mum doesn't want people to not. do something about the cold when the people laughing i'm writing on behalf of margaret's. 2 canon one when i'd like a dog for christmas. but then quentin i could play with him and talked and.
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even though eunice doesn't really believe in the christ child anymore he still writes a letter 2 says visiting his mother who's had to take his sister to the clinic once again. and it's nice to have something of my own. the 1st thing to tat and you and i completely understand him because we're in the clinic so much fun. it was pretty good really bad this year. it all happened so quickly. when fiona is poorly it's always tense city to patty internet if he had a reliable partner it'd be nice but it's difficult that once she had he. known as his sister fiona is nice and has been very sick since birth sometimes their mother spends weeks in the clinic with her illness often doesn't know whether she'll be home after school the grandparents help out at the drop of a hat. your. mom had long and want to call his grandmother had a dog for
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son and it's still a dream for me he says. to set a fan shirish it's difficult to fiona need sterile conditions of a fish to the dog wouldn't just live outside but it would be allowed into the house and we can't do that sad as that is. this is to say it's too risky we're not brave enough and if you can. in the. christ child i want many friends please tell saint nick i was good today. for christmas i want to see my friend again because she moved and so did i.
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i want to find a best friend please make it come true. dear christ child i want to go i phone 6 and a friend i want a friend p.s. what do you really look like. for me cindy i think it's a boy's day users. she had so she looks like an angel and wears a white gown and has short blonde hair and. brown curly hair. sarah also has girl's hair on her head. like it and on her bottoms.
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and gown like a dress i'm. not khaki might be used to wear. in . so wesley like what priest wears. nice nice white high heels i love photography and if you take a picture you'll never see the face again. this is live you don't. even kids can do your christ child. i would like to go to the zoo. because mom has no time or money or. my mother kind of talked. to this i've wanted to go to the zoo for the past 2 years so far. i've. had like. mike's friends were shocked when he told them his christmas wish almost
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all of them have been to the zoo several times. by. this time the children also don't understand why mike came to after school care without socks on this cold december day. like. this so muffy. there are 4 children and the 5th is on his way mom has a baby on her tummy. i just cannot mention it so i would like to go to munich soon but that's not possible because mom's boyfriend has to work. like the key always has to work even at christmas when. dad is never there. and yes.
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looking. like i'm there. last year i got a robot with a gun and arrow was just. 5 to call my soul spirit you have to shoot and get it to fall over just to own fate. feeling much. i think i'll. never come out of the biggest live from baghdad. this was one of those good guys. the best damn but i'm good enough in the day. and didn't give them flat stick to have. been because i now own my
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dreams. i mean not only be. on hand that the tin man that. did christ child but i don't want much to see it. too bad the job of a bicycle attorney will make up the playwright bill camper van 10 to 14 glitter pens a princess dress and shoes with high heels for a real cat. did christ shot i want you to give me nothing this year because i don't deserve it. christ child i would like to be a forward for by our nick. killian has what many boys his age
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want a father who's a football coach by munich's home ground is the stadium the 2 of them are season ticket holders. and see that i stay and this tends to. ted gave. i didn't say so. in every. yard stare. in yards or was. this. these words that was the chorus. even though always sings along in a stadium it's got tricky for children lately who the christ child please return the chairs to the stadium. does
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a year there used to be chairs in the stadium and. those are better can stand on to be as tall as the adult. box. children can see otherwise this is on homes easier to put up and they've got rid of them now more tomorrow night i like watching them play in the stadiums. not just at home in front of the t.v. fiancee. his mother puts it in the envelope but he's wired that thieves could get it. yet on. football wasn't so important to kilian in the past but his sister emily died of cancer 2 years ago my florida ever really took me for he didn't need football as much back then but now it's football all day long. he used to play with family for hours it was in the
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hunt cotton. 12 oxer mother and son recall the day amalie always wanted to play to. you could be 40 but she wasn't allowed to. she always wanted to play not just at christmas. day christ child died this year she's sitting on a cloud somewhere give her my mouth we miss her a lot. families grave is right next to kill ian's school he often stops by after class with his friends. the last form of the sound and the cheeky boys always
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extinguish the candles with the holy water i can't stand on. with him i don't get. that our angel. kids the 3rd time the family have celebrated christmas without emilie. killian still chooses a present for emilie every year he opens it for her after church on christmas eve last year he bought her an angel it's now lying on her grave. and this year he's going to give her of course. these. c.d.'s. help was not enough william inquest it will be up to you to. have an office of the captain of the. their paradigm in real time. the 5th.
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dear christ child i would love to see you this year can you tell me how jesus is doing in heaven. christ child please make sure my grandparents stay healthy. i want my whole family to stay healthy i never want to lose them. since family death angels have played a big role in killian's family. and has a number of children's books about guardian angels.
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you don't and. everyone has a guardian angel or maybe i'm a guardian angel had different plans for her. to kinda the children don't belong to us they just accompany us for a while. this can be the charlie i. that works for the christ child. as for. the taliban how many on top us was me killian's looking for a horse figurine for assistance great if. so then isn't it as you see he's found one he likes. you never thought it.
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was was this just what visiting hours months. it's not too big and looks like it would cope with the outdoors they decide to buy it. if. we're really monumental we don't go to church as much as we used to. like we can't understand it why would he do that. to source or why would the sweetest child have to suffer so much. to see someone that's why we're angry sometimes so we don't then go to church. yeah given the source rituals are still important to the family of. people who father and son decorate the material to be seen together. but how this
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will. give us time to dress up. so they can look at you know us and not do that of us 1st and. 'd the children. want to rehearsal nativity play in time for christmas. it's a challenge every year for teacher and chip leader the children come from difficult social backgrounds many a migrants and refugees it doesn't matter what cultural background they have they all look forward to christmas. and usual said to mary you're going to have a god's child can come. they went to jerusalem and then to bethlehem while. they were with him that's all he was. not at. bethlehem's my country interrupts another child. if they understand that you know
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most of them on. the hunger strike don't get beaten i think they prayed for. forgiveness but 1st they went to a man and they asked him and he said they had remained a stable and. down the simpatico. then the baby was born i wanted to say that. just. until now did not yet these children are writing their letter to the christ child to. this family fled the congo and came to germany. struggles to concentrate he has many fears. and. the best because dear christ child. my name is oscar. he threw a chair as i wished that nobody could kill me. duncan thank you still. there
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. should i have an enemy. it is not. you know over at night i'm scared he's overloads. he mutters when the robber hops implants comes on. the west. there's nobody here and the doors are squeaking. own doctors are really. the message i need he has 7 knives and one pistol. he just because he is really bad russell deployed to cancer and i can't get him out of my head when it's dark i start thinking i'm in the words of my.
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dear christ child my dad says even the trees in this village are criminal and the police do nothing but have christmas the bells chime and your angels come and sing christmas carols. i'm a bit sad i don't know why i'm scared at night when i run to my mums dads but otherwise all is well. yeah yeah well. it's just separated she wants nothing for a self she wants something for her mother. fucking sick for love nor money young. said of a sudden esteem. teacher once a see what she's written maybe she'd like to read her letter out loud but says no
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secret of us and sure enough. but she confirms it's a nice wish her mother would be happy if it came true and so would she. if i said is that after a moment. a 6 pack. i mean from palestine. this 10 ish things to your christ child i would like to have lots of muslims it's cool if you can protect girls. find a friend. my girlfriend said she liked me that's where i got the idea. we've been boxing for 2 weeks. books india. i want to become a boxer likely to school or a doctor or a construction worker. moreover hustles for the nativity
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play who will get to be jews if you ask the spirit on the teacher reminds the children that the baby's not in mary's tummy right from the start. it's all a bit confusing at 1st amin is playing the innkeeper and gets his lines wrong his wife's pregnant he says they need to concentrate. keep. constant the teacher goes through the lines with them. none of us naturally of talking are shy that i'll probably run or i miss you a platform and then they enjoy listening to some german christmas carols. out.
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was. different and we don't celebrate christmas but here at the our club i play the recorder and i perform with and shia and maybe i'll do a hip hop with all our 4 and a few other boys and this will not only have to sing then we're allowed to. have to sing a few times then we hold hands after that we're allowed to take our presence and open and i think that's boring and given his alcohol this for me and he said i'm ready to i'm going to get my tree out of the cellar and celebrate christmas hertz
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there i'll put the candles on the tree and buy a present for my mom then i'm allowed to watch t.v. all day. what to do even to slip the bell rings and we all come downstairs and then the curtain opens and there's the christmas tree. that one can spend some to catch flog the candles are lit on the tree and there's christmas music and then we sing. it is. as i to s. it's better if you rush in i open the presents and then eat you can sing afterwards when asked how. singing isn't as important as anything in presence. 1 cries child i want to know why you never come to me i believe in you maybe it's our dress.
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in the after school care and. it's not just the gingerbread men who's got difference in colors the children come from lots of different countries and continents. is turkish. so. dear christ child i would like you to visit me out match. that i'm muslim so the christ child doesn't come to my house. i would love to see how christmas is celebrated. by the gift i.
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visit again the pet i would like to have lots of biscuits at home. and a lot of other muslims visiting so we could celebrate christmas together and get twice as many presents. and then. if you give a few to my friend and. my. turn but my father. he says it's better if we don't celebrate christmas. just naish it anything most fans can still listen that time. instead of me i believe the christ child lives in the clouds. he lives in the far away land has not been discovered yet maybe lives in the clouds and the fresh ones he definitely lives in the house i was in france they've just been and how all
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events as fireman when he makes a fire the fires go out. and the smoke coming out of the chimney the sober i just i just don't believe in him. like i would have that my mother always stays home when we go for christmas walk and we go to church and dad stays home. with c.m. family and i always spied through the keyhole when you were arranging the presents thank you. you've never told me that before. i got a list a little bit. dear christ child i want to talk about you i think the romans were very cruel to you. i'm especially story about the nails he said in have said you're the son of god they didn't like that.
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crimes charges for christmas i'd like to see you at least p.s. existe to. christ child give me a sign if you exist so i can believe in you. the christmas post office in english that gets more than 80000 letters from children from all around the world every year the christ child tries to answer all of them. on your own jim acosta has. a fish i wrote a letter to the easter bunny telling him what i want for east and something else
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one time mr and i really got something in ita i think the easter bunny lives far away or stackhouse initialisation vida finance. image that is also far away from land our and some wishes can't wait. oh we're cooking a lovely steak today because you asked for that ernest but that's too much like us liza and junia still haven't defeated their leukemia entirely that's why the christ child is making their wish come true before christmas a cooking course in a proper children's cooking school. chance to catch a fanatic of the class that. i like my. they're getting everything usually and liza won't allow to eat for a long time. who
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