Catonsville Carpenter Moonlights As Santa’s Helper, Writing Back To Hopeful Children

CATONSVILLE, Md. (WJZ) — Letters to Santa. It’s a contented for galore kids to nonstop him their privation database this clip of year, but there’s 1 Catonsville antheral who has taken connected the work of penning back.

Tucked distant successful the bosom of Catonsville is Santa’s workshop, and 1 of his long-time helpers.

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“Good feelings successful my chest, successful my interior heart, conscionable bully feelings astir doing thing for the assemblage arsenic good arsenic for the children,” Santa’s helper Rick Brostrom said.

For the past 20 years, Brostrom has been collecting letters to Santa from kids successful his community, speechmaking each of them, and replying back.

“They can’t conscionable archer their parents what they privation for Christmas, and this is simply a mode for them to amusement and explicit themselves,” Brostrom said.

He says immoderate letters are silly, others are sweet, and a fewer are peculiarly heartwarming.

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“Some of them marque maine cry,” Brostrom said. “One small girl, each she wanted was her location to person a caller boyfriend. Maybe she mislaid her dad. In that case, you truly consciousness it.”

Brostrom is simply a carpenter. He built a mailbox to store hundreds of letters addressed to Santa successful the North Pole.

Whenever helium sees a instrumentality address, helium sends a enactment successful return. It’s thing helium says he’ll proceed doing: “until I’m dead, oregon until I die, is an easier mode of saying it.”

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