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Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa (lots of them)

met my first professional Santa Claus three years ago in New Mexico, where I was photographing cowboys, gunslingers, snake handler and Civil War-era re actors. One subject made a convincing 1860s Union soldier, complete with authentic costume and rifle musket. After we had completed the shoot, he asked if he could show me a very different character that he portrayed. I agreed, and he returned fifteen

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