Most of my friends stopped believing in Santa Claus when we were 8 years old. Unlike so many kids who hear the cold and harsh truth from a neighborhood bully, nobody ever told me that the big guy from the North Pole was actually my parents.
Sure, I heard rumors, and my friends and I would talk about it at our lunch table. They would tell me stories of what their parents had said to them during"the talk," but the truth is, I pitied them. I felt like they were outside of this warm and colorful circle that I was in no rush to leave. I also still genuinely believed in Santa - something that lasted for a solid four years after everyone else stopped. And that's because of my mom.
As we've gotten older, my mom has even come up with new ideas to keep Santa alive, because she can truly never reach her cap on filling our lives with magic. I was devastated, and I decided to confront my parents about the truth. They insisted Santa was real, which is something they still do to this day. I am currently 30 years old.
While Christmas wasn't the same for me after that year , I realized that the magic didn't really have to go away. I knew Santa wasn't real, my parents knew that I knew, but I also realized that the"magic" I cherished as a child had more to do with the traditions we did as a family than Santa himself.
As we've gotten older, my mom has even come up with new ideas to keep Santa alive, because she can truly never reach her cap on filling our lives with magic. In recent years, she has started putting a few presents under a small Christmas tree on our back porch. Just when we think Christmas morning is over, she smiles and says,"I think I saw Santa leave a few more things outside." My sister and I all race to the other tree like excited kids, because on Christmas morning . . .
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