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Jennie Garth gives the Pacer's tickets to the boy in the wheel chair.

Barbara Billingsley gets Jennie to read aloud the Gift of the Magi to her.

She goes to the home care taker's (Charlie Robinson) house to say goodbye and finds him in his garage workshop surrounded by notices from the papers about Secret Santa, and gets him to confess that he is the one. He explains that the people in the home leave him money in their wills and he uses the money to help others. He asks her not to tell anyone his secret, but she says no, she always gets her story.

Back in the city, she hands in her story to the editor and lets him know that she is quitting. The editor of the Hamden paper is retiring and she is moving there to take over the job of the paper.

The story ends with the reading of her last article on Secret Santa where she tells the world that Secret Santa is still a secret, so that the gifts can be given without any expectation of thanks.