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<p>No Virginia, Santa Claus is not the lone figure to be celebrated during the holiday season. Long before the jolly, portly old white man dressed to the 9s in red and white emerged, children like you hoped for three wise men to be super- benevolent on a special morning in January. Today a pending fiscal-cliff, slow-to-grow economy and general ill-feeling in America adds up to countless kids and their wishful thinking not being a top priority in our barrios, suburbs and boroughs.</p>