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Michigan man, 90, dresses like Santa to bring Christmas to wife in nursing home
ctvnews ^ | December 17, 2018

Posted on 12/18/2018 12:32:53 AM PST by lowbridge

A 90-year-old Michigan man dressed up as Santa and brought Christmas to a local nursing home so his wife of six decades could celebrate the holidays.

Don West was at his wife's bedside as a guitarist strummed along during a holiday party at Golden Days II Adult Foster Care in Charlotte. His 86-year-old wife, Jackie, has been living at the home since she suffered her first stroke last year.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: christmas; michigan

1 posted on 12/18/2018 12:32:53 AM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

That’s nice.


2 posted on 12/18/2018 12:34:27 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: lowbridge

That’s devotion, and they’ve been blessed with happiness even in rough times.


3 posted on 12/18/2018 1:03:53 AM PST by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: lowbridge

A man keeping a promise that far to many boys make.


4 posted on 12/18/2018 1:26:21 AM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortnes and our sacred honor.")
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To: lowbridge

Ty! Very sweet story; such devotion, so much love.


5 posted on 12/18/2018 3:56:42 AM PST by mlizzy (America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe/Wade has deformed a great nation. -MT)
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To: lowbridge

Story of the season.


6 posted on 12/18/2018 4:20:54 AM PST by mcmuffin (Jan. 20, 2017, Thank God!)
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To: lowbridge

To the naysayers who promote the notion that Santa isn’t real: He is, and his name is Don West.


7 posted on 12/18/2018 4:25:39 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: lowbridge
Santa may be fiction but the *spirit* of Santa Claus is alive and well in billions of loving parents, grandparents, children, wives, husbands and friends all over the world.

8 posted on 12/18/2018 5:48:07 AM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Santa Claus is the avatar used by familial love - especially children.


9 posted on 12/18/2018 5:49:03 AM PST by Aevery_Freeman (Your Hatred for my white skin makes me a Racist how?)
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To: .30Carbine; 1ofmanyfree; 21stCenturion; 21twelve; 240B; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; 3AngelaD; ..
Wonderful article. Thanks lowbridge.
Merry Christmas, all.
Here's a blast from the past I hope you remember and enjoy again. I ran it on my $2 embedded XP box the other day, just to see if it worked.
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10 posted on 12/19/2018 6:49:36 AM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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