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Ban Hey, it's Delilah. Thank you for stopping by. I
have put together some of my favorite radio moments here
to share with you on our daily podcast. Hey it's Delilah.
We celebrate the holidays on my radio program all season long,
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and we'll be doing the same right here with you
each day. With that, relax and enjoy the variety of
wondrous delights listeners have shared with us as you prepare
for this special time of year with your family and friends.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Hi Marty, Hi, thank you for being with us tonight
as we celebrate the holidays.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Tell us your Christmas story.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
So, my middle son was in second grade and cup
Scouts are for our pack service project. I went down
to the post office and got some Santa Claus letters.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Santa Claus letters.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Right, the post office has hundreds of them, and so
we would go down and get some and then fulfill
the Santa Claus wishes and take the things back to
the post office, and then they would get them to
whom the letter had been written, some because some had
returned addresses and some didn't. Okay, So one year, this
particular year, the one letter that really touched my heart.
This letter was from a nine year old boy and
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his letter, and he asked for a pair of gloves
and boots for his mother, a doll for his little sister,
and a set of sheets for his bed. So I
decided this was a letter for our Scout pack to
act on it. At the monthly meeting, I said I
was going to read them a letter from a little
boy their age, and so I read them the letter,
and the room it was about sixty boys and their parents.
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It just went stone cold silent for about thirty seconds.
Nobody could believe that's all this child was asking for.
So at the end of the night they came back
as as a total group, and they decided they were
going to adopt this family and this little boy for Christmas.
And they raised money on their own and they raised
it as dens, and they now only provided the items
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on the list, but they went further than that, and
one of the groups got a tree. They all made decorations,
they made cookies, candies, and in cash they had put
together over fifty dollars.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Who do you think that transformed more the little boy
who was blessed by their generosity and their caring, or
each person in that in that Scout troop that gave
unselfishly and learned what it means to sacrifice.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Well, I'm definitely you know, it affected the boys in
the troop because they just didn't have any idea. And
even my you know, my youngest son now pointing to
the pile of gifts, that's not what Christmas is, he says.
Christmas is just being with other people and you know,
helping them and just spreading good tears.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Hi, good evening. Who's this Rosa, Rosa welcome?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
How are you tonight? I'm fine, Thank you for being here.
Having a good holiday season so far? I hear we
have a little bit to rejoice in.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Yes, some good changes in life, Yes, a big change.
Tell me your story.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
I got divorced from four years ago. I left my
husband because he was abusive. And when I left him,
I left everything behind. I grabbed me and my two kids.
I took a grocery bag full of clothes that was
maybe two outfits apiece for them and in my uniform,
and I went to my mom's And I mean I
purchased everything in our home that we lived in. So
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I had lost everything. I just left it all behind.
It wasn't worth going after. It was just worth getting
out of the situation I was in.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
So this wasn't just mental abuse or verbal abuse. It
sounds like there was some running for your life going on.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Yes, I had to start from the bottom, well bankruptcy,
got my car, went to nursing school, got my car,
and then I went and got my house. I just
got my house from just past July. Things have fallen
in place, and I know that you can do it
as a single parent because I am a single parent.
I provide for my kids everything. They're like my total life.
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And I just want everybody to know that there is
a way that you can get out of situations like that,
that you know that there is always if you have
to work away from the bottom, you can always work
your way to the top.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
And today you're in your own house, you're not being abused,
your children are safe, and you're going to have a
wonderful holiday. Right You're going to go pick out a
tree and decorate it and have traditions.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
With the kids that you start.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yes, happy holiday, sweet, I'm glad that you were able
to make it out and to have a better life.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
I thank you.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
Hi.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Who's this?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
This is Charmaine, Charmaine Merry Christmas, God bless you.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Tell me your story.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
Well, it started when I was was like four or
five years old. My sister and I got up one
Christmas morning and all the cookies and the milk was gone,
and Santa had left the presence, and along with that,
he also had left a letter. Now, the letters continued
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for several years, and as my sister and I got older,
we were wondering, okay, where were they coming from. So
one Christmas we sat down and we had all my
relatives that always came for Christmas right with the hand
they wrote with in the opposite hand, to see if
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we can find out who it was.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
So you were doubting that it was Santa.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
We had our doubts.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Okay, So you were a little skeptical, and you were
doing your research, your investigative research, and what did you discover.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
We couldn't find anyone that it matched.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
That's because it was Santa unclehead.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
Right, and my sister and I. The only person we
can think of now besides Santa Claus would be my uncle, well,
my dad's best friend. We adopted him as our uncle,
and he's the only one that we didn't have to do.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Well, you could have had him and everybody else in
town do it. But I can tell you you would
have never found the perfect handwriting match unless you went
to the North Pole. Probably so did you become an
investigative reporter when you grew up?
Speaker 6 (06:31):
No, I became a single mom.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Well, when your little ones start getting suspicious and doubtful,
you'll just have to tell them the story and remind
them that you tried very hard to disprove Santa, but
you couldn't do it.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Hi, Bob, welcome to the Delilah Show. How can I
help you?
Speaker 7 (06:57):
Uh want to tell you about it favorite things that happened,
And she wanted me to tell you this other story.
I'm being currently unemployed. I've become what we call out here,
a go.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Get her, A go get her. You got get up
and going, You're going to get it.
Speaker 7 (07:14):
I take my wife to work and when she gets off,
I go get her. I like that. But anyway, my
favorite remembrance of Christmas. When I was about eight years old,
maybe nine, I won fifth prize in a coloring book
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contest that a local grocery store had a Lionel electric train.
I was in hog Hills.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
I had one of those. My brother and I did
growing up. I loved it.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
I love the way it.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Smelled, that sort of electric kind.
Speaker 7 (07:50):
Of stench, electric and oil.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Yeap, wasn't that a great smell.
Speaker 7 (07:56):
What made it so special was that my brother made
me up a railroad station from his Lincoln log set,
and my dad made me a WaterTower to go with it.
That was the most wonderful Christmas as a kid that
I can remember.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
You know what we did.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
We made a mountain out of paper mache o, and
then we cut holes in it so the train would
go through the side of.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
The mountain had a tunnel. It was fabulous.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
God bless you and everybody else who has wonderful memories
of those train sets.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Thank you, honey.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I so hope you have enjoyed these radio moments as
much as I enjoy bringing them to you. I'll share
more with you each weekday on Hey It's Delilah.
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Delilah
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