Girouette 09: Why the Captain Never Believed in Santa

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In Chapter Nine, Autry and Oxana, with all their elderly friends sitting around the deSpain’s fireplace, are dismayed to hear The Captain explain what really happened on Christmas Eve 60 years earlier.

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