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Dear Father Christmas,
this year I would like to spend a few words due to my absence since I was 9. I would like to let myself dream about things I'm afraid to imagine because I'm truly close to being a grown-up. To my invisible and unstable future I give all my best wishes and the responsibility to be the reason why I'll pursue struggling whilst my days appear hostile. I hope I'll always be too stunned by my life to give up on my aims.
Working-hard will be my personal time-killer and an escalation of successes will reign upon my existence. Sloth, one of the world's most deplorable sins, will stay far away from me, because I don't deserve it.
Finally, my biggest desire to live quietly with the people I love the most.
Lots of love, Vic

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Dear Santa Claus,

for next Christmas I’d like to go back to normal,

I’d like to spend time with my family, with my friends, without being afraid to take the covid.

I want to have fun, travel, I want to live without fear.

I want a world without covid.

I believe in you, merry Christmas.

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Dear Father Christmas,
this year I've only one wish:
I'd travel around the world,
but a better world
where trees don't burn,
sea isn't full of plastic,
animals don't suffer,
people care about each other
and love is allowed and accepted.
I know it's a huge wish,
but I'd see every corner of the world like that.
If not, it'd only be sad.

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Dear Father Christmas,
For this Christmas I don't want to ask you for material gift because i realized that there are more important things than gifts. I wish all the people i care about are always fine and that everyone can feel happy. I wish all my dreams come true. Finally I want a future where there are no inequalities and where everyone can feel free to express their feelings and their opinions without fear of being discriminated against. I don't know if I ask too much but i hope something can be realized.
-Annalisa Tortora

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Dear father christmas,
I don’t want material gift this year, I hope to find  happiness I lost ,i only want to stay with my parents. i wish my father would heal and come home, I miss him and it makes me sad that I can’t spend Christmas with him.

I hope it’s not too much to ask ,that’s all i want .

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Dear Father Christmas,

I admit it has been a while since I wrote to you
I have grown up a lot...as they say
but I haven't forgotten about you.
After many years I will not ask you
for dolls or video games as I often did
but I would like to ask you to reserve
a good future for me, full of adventures and
experiences
Grant me the company of my loved ones
and their hugs, their caresses and endless loughter
With h this I'm not telling you that I don't want complications but the ability to face every single obstacle
Make me aware of the things that really matter starting whit the smallest
Do you think I'm asking for too much?
However, as soon as you finish the children's letters and have some time, remember me

Have a nice trip, See you next year my old man

- Mariagrazia Corrado

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Dear Father Christmas,
I'd like to ask you some wishes for my future.
I'd like a world without pollution, full of trees and gardens to continue to breathe freedom.
I'd like a world with more equality and love, where everyone helps each other and happiness reigns.
I'd like a life with more music because it helps to dream and to stay alive inside.
Finally I'd ask you to be protected me by loved ones, especially those who have gone to heaven. Make me sure that when I look at the bright stars they greet me and tell me to never give up.
Merry Christmas
Matteo Ferrentino

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Dear Santa Claus,

this Christmas I don't want anything material, I don't think I need it.  Instead, I'd like to talk to you about my future.  Leaving aside my secret dreams, I would like a reality different from the one I live now.  I would like less hate and more love.  Less falsehood and more sincerity.  I wish that each of us could feel free and less imprisoned in a society that we have not chosen, but in which we have found ourselves.  I would like more understanding, more individuality, that everyone could think and say things with their own head and their own reason.  I would like less superficiality, that everyone could go to the bottom of things, feel them, make them their own.  I wish there was more maturity, more forgiveness, that we all learn to see things with less evil.  I want a better society where people are better, with less hypocrisy and more understanding.
- Buonaiuto Miriam

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Dear Santa,

these years have been so hard and I wouldn’t have imagined they could hurt me so badly, taking away the most important things for my fragile age: carefree, calm, freedom, happiness, affection, love, joy, self-esteem.

My wish is nothing more than to appease this chaos, these voices and this hatred inside my head; to finally be able to find that friend who doesn’t abandon you as everyone did and doesn’t leave you alone again to drown.

All I ask to you is to help me find serenity, to look at myself in the mirror with the same eyes as before, to defeat the monsters under the bed, to rekindle the light in my life. Because all I feel is that I am leaving precious years empty but I don't know how to fill them up and get up again if everything approaches me and I feel like I am locked up in a life that is not mine.

I'm not asking for much ... just to go back to my old life

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Dear Santa Claus,                                                   this year more than a list of gifts, I would like that my wish for the new year coming true.  I hope for a year full of freedom, happiness and serenity.  Where we can hug and kiss each other without any problem, where our smiles are not hidden by these masks. A year where you can travel without fear of being infected  therefore I can live new experience with my family and friends.

-Eleonora Rosica

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Dear Father Christmas,

I am still Young; I am only seventeen

But I have many dreams I think about during my daily routine.

My wish for Christmas is that you could help me to achieve all my goals

Finish school with high grades, so my mum is happy when she controls.

As I look at the Christmas tree covered with Green,

And stare at the lights on my TV screen,

I wish to graduate and in the future study at university.

I would like to study languages and do all the necessary exams

My passion is to teach foreign languages or maybe be a flight attendant.

I also wish to resolve all the problems we have now

Be confident in myself and believe more in who I am, but I still don’t know how!

This can help me during my studying career

And to be cheerful during the year.

I have been nice to all the people that I met,

So, I wish to be happy e never again be upset.

Dear Santa, as you can see

being happy is enough for me.

Carmen Normanno

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Dear Father Christmas, in this particular year I would ask you only the most important things: that you can put an end to the state of emergency that has limitated us from living life to the full, that you can help the homeless to get a meal and a warm place to live, and finally that you can relight a little hope in the hearts of those who have given up.
Marco

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dear father christmas,
the first thing I hope for my-future-self is to keep constantly a wealthy lifestyle. Moreover, I wish I could have my old life back, the one before Covid-19, because due to restrictions, we didn’t have a great time.
Finally, I would say I hope I achieve all my goals, about my job career and my family, which are the most important aspects of my future.
-Benedetta De Luca

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Dear Santa Claus,
I want at least this year Christmas to be spent quietly,without thoughts. I want you to bring a smile where there is pain, love where there is hatred and a world of hope to those who feel lost l. I'd like our eyes to see children who have no family to spend Christmas with. The last thing I want to ask you,Santa, is that everyone can spend the holidays in company and not alone, and I'd like that everyone have the opportunity to spend at least one day with loved one who are no longer there,so that they'll have a Christmas full of love. I do hope you can read this letter instead of reading Christmas lists full of material objects.
Sara.