When I was a young boy, I knew ____ who Santa Claus was. He was a fat, ____, old man with a long white ____, and he visited our home once every year to put lots and lots of ____ under the Christmas tree. He came only if my sister and I had been good, and only if we were ____. We must have been good kids because Santa brought ____ for us every year! As I got older, however, I stopped ____ in Santa Claus. Many years later, I asked myself the following ____: Is there a real Santa Claus? Was there ever a ____ Santa Claus? So, I went online and googled “Santa Claus.” And ____ what? I ____ out that yes, ____, Santa Claus was, in fact, a real man! His name was Saint ____, and he lived in what is now Turkey, about 1,700 years ago. He was ____ because he was a Christian and he often helped the ____ by giving them gifts. About a ____ years later, people in Europe began the tradition of giving gifts to children at Christmas as a way to ____ Saint Nicholas. The ____ image of Santa Claus, a magical old man dressed in red and white, with a long white beard, began about 200 years ago in Canada and in the United States. Nowadays, he is also known as ____ Nick, Father ____, Kris ____, Santy, or just ____. The original Saint Nicholas may have lived and died a long, long time ago, but I like to believe that his ____ still lives on to this day. His spirit, I believe, ____ us that true happiness comes from giving to other people.

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