Word: crocket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...terrible thing when you're got some three-day-old kid who believes in Santa Claus, and you have to go tell him there's no Santa Claus because his father's drunk," says Globe reporter Douglas S. Crocket, who has been working with Globe Santa for 24 years and says he was once a Globe Santa beneficiary himself...
...Crocket writes up tragedies every day, stories about Chuckie, an 8-year-old autistic foster child, or 8-year-old David, whose penniless aunt rescued him from his mentally ill mother who threw dishes and chairs at him and his three sisters, or about 6-year-old Peter from a rundown public housing project who wrote to Globe Santa asking that his 4-year-old sister Martha get some dolls to play with...
...perhaps gloomily reminiscent of Nathaniel West's Miss Lonely hearts, but Crocket says, "You don't get jaded. You just look at those kids. They're as sad as they were 24 years ago-they're as sad as they were 100 years...
These days, buyers begin stock-piling toys in April, according to Crocket, snapping them up at just nickels over wholesale price. The money raised this year goes to pay for the toys already purchased. At far as a fundraising target for this year, Crocket says. "You huge to do as well as last year [but] we don't set a quota...
...gets something (from Globe Santa) that he would a" have at Christmas," says Crocket, "then as far an I'm concerned it's a success...