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On a park bench, a small Boston Terrier sits relaxed on the lap of an East Asian grandmother, both watching from a distance as people pass along the path: a tall man with a bushy beard and a wide-brimmed hat, and a woman holding an open umbrella.

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Father Christmas

Every December there’s a queue for the grotto, and every December there’s a toddler who screams the moment she’s put on Father Christmas’s knee. It isn’t the man. She’d chat happily to the same kind grandad at the bus stop. It’s the beard, the red suit and the booming laugh. They’ve changed his shape.

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