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What if Santa died? An invited response

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Mark Salter
Mark Salter*
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Homerton Hospital, London E9 6SR. E-mail: mark.salter@elcmht.nhs.uk
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From late October each year, bleary-eyed postal workers all over the UK sit in shifts, sifting through some 120 000 children's letters addressed to a rubicund, septuagenarian, airborne logistics expert living in the frozen Arctic. In accordance with guidelines, every letter is screened for signs of neglect, abuse or some other singularity. Every year, several escape the shredder. One year, a thoughtful 10-year-old wrote.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 28 , Issue 12 , December 2004 , pp. 457
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