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Alisa Mathis, 42, noticed a similar spark in the eyes of her son, Khalif, 8. As he glided from room to room eating a lunch of turkey with macaroni and cheese, cutting out paper Christmas trees and posing for pictures with Santa, Mathis said, "I've never seen my son so happy."
Mathis, a mother of four who lives in transitional housing, said she attended the celebration "because it gets them out of the house, helps them have fun and helps with Christmas." A single mother hit hard by the recession, Mathis can barely afford the electronics her boy wants. She works a part-time job as a recess monitor for Prince George's County schools.
"Us moving into shelters and stuff, he wasn't focused in school," Mathis said of Khalif. "Kids made fun of him.
Party ignites holiday magic for homeless D.C. children - washingtonpost.com
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