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Stunning Northern Lights from last night/early morning in North Pole, Alaska, where Santa Claus (seriously, I'm not kidding) lives. Photos by Maraya Kraft. #Alaska #AlaskaWinter #NorthernLights
Northern Lights in bright green over the snow in North Pole, Alaska. Northern Lights in bright green over North Pole, Alaska.
Northern Lights in bright green over the snow in North Pole, Alaska.
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Lizzie
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Please attach a pic of Santa Claus!
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"First things first: Yes, Santa Claus is his legal name. It’s on his government identification, and the mail that arrives at his apartment.

A long time ago, he was called Thomas O’Connor. He doesn’t answer to that name anymore. If someone shouted it in the North Pole Safeway, “I wouldn’t even turn my head,” he says.

This Santa Claus is a 73-year-old medical-marijuana-using, Bernie-supporting vegetarian monk who lives at the poverty line, does not drive and thinks — truth be told — that Christmas is a “crass commercial secular spectacle.”
https://www.adn.com/alaska-life/2020/12/15/in-north-pole-alaska-santa-claus-is-a-bastion-of-blue-on-a-city-council-as-red-as-rudolphs-nose/

Santa Claus standing behind a reindeer in North Pole, Alaska. Yes, his legal name is Santa Claus.
A close-up picture of Santa Claus in North Pole, Alaska. That is his legal name and he has the long white beard, moustache, wire-rimmed glasses, a belly and is wearing a typical Santa hat.

In North Pole, Alaska, Santa Claus is a bastion of blue on a city council as red as Rudolph’s nose

Michelle Theriault Boots (Anchorage Daily News)
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