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YES VIRGINIA, HE'S REAL

ight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of the and the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial in the now-defunct newspaper's Sept. 21, 1897, issue. The work of veteran newsman Francis Pharcellus Church has since become history's most reprinted newspaper editorial, appearing in part or whole in dozens of languages in books,

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