REAL SANTA
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DISCOVERY OF THE "REAL SANTA"
One day when I was about ten years old my mother was cleaning in the kitchen and I went up to her and asked her about Santa. She of course told me it was real and anyone who said differently had obviously been bad that year and Santa was not coming to visit. Most of my life I had believed if I was good all year I would be rewarded during Christmas time when Santa Clause came to visit my house. My parents and other family members had always been very good at Christmas time letting us know that Santa had been at our house. Some years they would even leave snow on the carpet with footprints in it to let my sister and I know Santa really had come to our home. This went on until Christmas Eve 1991. This was the year when I discovered it was a cover up and it had been my parents all these years.
My doubts had begun after a fellow classmate Michael had told me the entire Santa story was fake. He told my class that it was everyone's parents and there was never really a Santa Clause. I began frequently interrogating my parent's everyday about Santa Clause...