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LaFain Freeman gets ready to change his persona from the man to Santa LaFain. LaFain was once an Alabama Highway Patrolman (State Trooper) that stood in the schools house door with George Wallace. Photo by Stephen Gross / The Anniston Star
“I’m older than dirt,” he says, which is neither self-deprecating nor a pejorative. “As Santa Claus, I’m 1,784 (years old), born in 235 A.D. in a small town called Myra in east Asia. It’s now in Turkey and the town is called Demre. Now that’s as Santa.”
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LaFain Freeman gets ready to change his persona from the man to Santa LaFain. LaFain was once an Alabama Highway Patrolman (State Trooper) that stood in the schools house door with George Wallace. Photo by Stephen Gross / The Anniston Star
LaFain Freeman gets ready to change his persona from the man to Santa LaFain. LaFain was once an Alabama Highway Patrolman (State Trooper) that stood in the schools house door with George Wallace. Photo by Stephen Gross / The Anniston Star
LaFain Freeman gets ready to change his persona from the man to Santa LaFain. LaFain was once an Alabama Highway Patrolman (State Trooper) that stood in the schools house door with George Wallace. Photo by Stephen Gross / The Anniston Star
LaFain Freeman gets ready to change his persona from the man to Santa LaFain. LaFain was once an Alabama Highway Patrolman (State Trooper) that stood in the schools house door with George Wallace. Photo by Stephen Gross / The Anniston Star
LaFain Freeman gets ready to change his persona from the man to Santa LaFain. LaFain was once an Alabama Highway Patrolman (State Trooper) that stood in the schools house door with George Wallace. Photo by Stephen Gross / The Anniston Star
LaFain Freeman gets ready to change his persona from the man to Santa LaFain. LaFain was once an Alabama Highway Patrolman (State Trooper) that stood in the schools house door with George Wallace. Photo by Stephen Gross / The Anniston Star
LaFain Freeman gets ready to change his persona from the man to Santa LaFain. LaFain was once an Alabama Highway Patrolman (State Trooper) that stood in the schools house door with George Wallace. Photo by Stephen Gross / The Anniston Star
LaFain Freeman gets ready to change his persona from the man to Santa LaFain. LaFain was once an Alabama Highway Patrolman (State Trooper) that stood in the schools house door with George Wallace. Photo by Stephen Gross / The Anniston Star
LaFain Freeman gets ready to change his persona from the man to Santa LaFain. LaFain was once an Alabama Highway Patrolman (State Trooper) that stood in the schools house door with George Wallace. Photo by Stephen Gross / The Anniston Star
LaFain Freeman gets ready to change his persona from the man to Santa LaFain. LaFain was once an Alabama Highway Patrolman (State Trooper) that stood in the schools house door with George Wallace. Photo by Stephen Gross / The Anniston Star
LaFain Freeman gets ready to change his persona from the man to Santa LaFain. LaFain was once an Alabama Highway Patrolman (State Trooper) that stood in the schools house door with George Wallace. Photo by Stephen Gross / The Anniston Star
LaFain Freeman gets ready to change his persona from the man to Santa LaFain. LaFain was once an Alabama Highway Patrolman (State Trooper) that stood in the schools house door with George Wallace. Photo by Stephen Gross / The Anniston Star
LaFain Freeman gets ready to change his persona from the man to Santa LaFain. LaFain was once an Alabama Highway Patrolman (State Trooper) that stood in the schools house door with George Wallace. Photo by Stephen Gross / The Anniston Star
LaFain Freeman gets ready to change his persona from the man to Santa LaFain. LaFain was once an Alabama Highway Patrolman (State Trooper) that stood in the schools house door with George Wallace. Photo by Stephen Gross / The Anniston Star
LaFain Freeman gets ready to change his persona from the man to Santa LaFain. LaFain was once an Alabama Highway Patrolman (State Trooper) that stood in the schools house door with George Wallace. Photo by Stephen Gross / The Anniston Star
LaFain Freeman changes his persona from the man to Santa LaFain.
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LaFain Freeman gets ready to change his persona from the man to Santa LaFain. LaFain was once an Alabama Highway Patrolman (State Trooper) that stood in the schools house door with George Wallace. Photo by Stephen Gross / The Anniston Star
Stephen Gross / The Anniston Star
LaFain Freeman gets ready to change his persona from the man to Santa LaFain. LaFain was once an Alabama Highway Patrolman (State Trooper) that stood in the schools house door with George Wallace. Photo by Stephen Gross / The Anniston Star
Stephen Gross / The Anniston Star
LaFain Freeman gets ready to change his persona from the man to Santa LaFain. LaFain was once an Alabama Highway Patrolman (State Trooper) that stood in the schools house door with George Wallace. Photo by Stephen Gross / The Anniston Star
Stephen Gross / The Anniston Star
LaFain Freeman gets ready to change his persona from the man to Santa LaFain. LaFain was once an Alabama Highway Patrolman (State Trooper) that stood in the schools house door with George Wallace. Photo by Stephen Gross / The Anniston Star
Stephen Gross / The Anniston Star
LaFain Freeman gets ready to change his persona from the man to Santa LaFain. LaFain was once an Alabama Highway Patrolman (State Trooper) that stood in the schools house door with George Wallace. Photo by Stephen Gross / The Anniston Star
Stephen Gross / The Anniston Star
LaFain Freeman gets ready to change his persona from the man to Santa LaFain. LaFain was once an Alabama Highway Patrolman (State Trooper) that stood in the schools house door with George Wallace. Photo by Stephen Gross / The Anniston Star
Stephen Gross / The Anniston Star
LaFain Freeman gets ready to change his persona from the man to Santa LaFain. LaFain was once an Alabama Highway Patrolman (State Trooper) that stood in the schools house door with George Wallace. Photo by Stephen Gross / The Anniston Star
Stephen Gross / The Anniston Star
LaFain Freeman gets ready to change his persona from the man to Santa LaFain. LaFain was once an Alabama Highway Patrolman (State Trooper) that stood in the schools house door with George Wallace. Photo by Stephen Gross / The Anniston Star
Stephen Gross / The Anniston Star
LaFain Freeman gets ready to change his persona from the man to Santa LaFain. LaFain was once an Alabama Highway Patrolman (State Trooper) that stood in the schools house door with George Wallace. Photo by Stephen Gross / The Anniston Star
Stephen Gross / The Anniston Star
LaFain Freeman gets ready to change his persona from the man to Santa LaFain. LaFain was once an Alabama Highway Patrolman (State Trooper) that stood in the schools house door with George Wallace. Photo by Stephen Gross / The Anniston Star
Stephen Gross / The Anniston Star
LaFain Freeman gets ready to change his persona from the man to Santa LaFain. LaFain was once an Alabama Highway Patrolman (State Trooper) that stood in the schools house door with George Wallace. Photo by Stephen Gross / The Anniston Star
Stephen Gross / The Anniston Star
LaFain Freeman gets ready to change his persona from the man to Santa LaFain. LaFain was once an Alabama Highway Patrolman (State Trooper) that stood in the schools house door with George Wallace. Photo by Stephen Gross / The Anniston Star
Stephen Gross / The Anniston Star
LaFain Freeman gets ready to change his persona from the man to Santa LaFain. LaFain was once an Alabama Highway Patrolman (State Trooper) that stood in the schools house door with George Wallace. Photo by Stephen Gross / The Anniston Star
Stephen Gross / The Anniston Star
LaFain Freeman gets ready to change his persona from the man to Santa LaFain. LaFain was once an Alabama Highway Patrolman (State Trooper) that stood in the schools house door with George Wallace. Photo by Stephen Gross / The Anniston Star
Stephen Gross / The Anniston Star
LaFain Freeman gets ready to change his persona from the man to Santa LaFain. LaFain was once an Alabama Highway Patrolman (State Trooper) that stood in the schools house door with George Wallace. Photo by Stephen Gross / The Anniston Star
LaFain Freeman gets ready to change his persona from the man to Santa LaFain. LaFain was once an Alabama Highway Patrolman (State Trooper) that stood in the schools house door with George Wallace. Photo by Stephen Gross / The Anniston Star