There he is. Right off the Ninth Street entrance to the Gallery in Center City. You can tell by the line. Longest line I've seen all day. Beth Branconi says it's about this long every year, right up to the steps leading to the street. "It's like a tradition we have," she's says, coming down from Northeast Philadelphia. Standing next to her, and just about as tall, are son Anthony, 13, and daughter Brianna, 11-almost-12. Brianna says they're holding onto the magic for their little brother, Mikey, who is just a year. Mikey's taking it in from the shoulders of his dad, Joe. Santa is their first stop. "We're doing this first cause of the line," Beth says. "Then we do the light show, then we'll do the Ebenezer village." She's doing for them what her mom did for her when she was a girl growing up in West Philadelphia. "Every year. Every year to the Gallery."
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