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    EVERYDAY GREATNESS Mandy Niles

    Nov 25, 2023 2 minutes

    For the past decade, Mandy Niles has served as her Texas neighborhood’s “chief elf” on St. Nicholas Day. The traditional Advent feast day occurs each December 6 and honors the fourth-century bishop of Myra (a town on the Mediterranean coast in what is now southern Turkey), the patron saint of children and gift giving. Orphaned at

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