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Denver's real-life Santa.(The Goodness Of America)(Brief Article)
This past Christmas Eve, approximately 250 residents of Denver's Samaritan House shelter got a visit from a bearded, middle-aged man. The visitor pulled out a thick bankroll of hundred-dollar bills and started passing them out to his less fortunate neighbors. Before he departed, the man had given away an estimated $20,000-25,000.
Brian Jones, a residential coordinator who was on duty at the shelter on Christmas Eve, described the anonymous benefactor to a reporter for the Denver Post: "He told us that he had been down in the past and he had some hard times and he wanted to give something back. But that's as much as he would say."
Denver's "Santa" singled out one family in dire need for an ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Denver's real-life Santa.(The Goodness Of America)(Brief Article)