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Good morning. I'm Noel King. Gino's Deli Stop-N-Buy in San Antonio is a plain old deli most of the time. But last year, owner Aleem Chaudhry put up a decorative Christmas mailbox. The thing is, kids didn't understand the decorative part. They put present requests and questions for Santa inside. So Chaudhry wrote back, and now it's a tradition. One curious little girl asked Santa, are you really coming down the chimney? Why don't you use the front door? Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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