You don't need the parade to smile at strangers

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For me, the most indelible memory will be the faces of the children. The bright faces shown with joy, hope and cheer. They’d braved temperatures in the high teens to see Santa.



That they first had to see me didn’t faze them one bit.



Then there were the faces of the adults. They seemed to go through what I guess you could call the Five Stages of Celebrity Disappointment.