Hope

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"Santa gave me a big toy car last Christmas", the little boy told his friend, happily, as Christmas approached. "What did he give you?"
"Hope", his friend smiled, as he patted the letter from his mother inside his shirt pocket. She had promised she would be home this Christmas.
Miles away, hope is what drove his mother into staying alive, as the doctors successfully removed the bullet from her bloodied military uniform.

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