When Santa showed up at an elementary school, he was able to give every child the gift they'd asked for, except for one. She only wanted her daddy back from his job in Iraq.

When the fake Santa took off his beard, there "wasn't a box big enough" to hold the joy his daughter felt while hugging her newly-returned father.

She had only seen him for two weeks in the last two years.

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