For Shortz, the true meaning and magic of the holiday began on Christmas Eve 1958, when he was eight years old. “My twin brother, Ned, and I were in the living room with our father, who was relaxing in his favorite easy chair after setting up the Christmas tree,” Bob said. “It was our family custom to decorate the tree on Christmas Eve, and my brother and I were in a hurry to get started—but Dad said he wanted a chance to sit down and rest a bit.” The twin boys could not imagine how anyone would want to sit down and relax on such an exciting night. Grown-ups were so unfathomable! As the boys paced the room, waiting for their mother and older sister, Wendy, to join them, Bob remembered that he began to quiz his father regarding a very important matter about which he had been quite concerned but had been afraid to confront. “Daddy,” he asked, “how can Santa come down the chimney? Wouldn’t he just end up in the coal bin?” Bob knew that the chimney was connected to the furnace, because one of his chores around the house was to keep the “worm,”
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