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When I Realised Santa Didn't Exist (contains spoiler)

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i think it was 1969. maybe 1970. our teacher had organised the class to each write a letter to Santa, or as he was then known, Father Christmas.

we poured out our hearts, or more accurately, our desires, to the charitable old fellow and in due course we each were presented with a reply from the north pole.

unfortunately all our replies seemed to be the same. a postcard with a picture of the great jolly man in an armchair in front of a blazing fire. his great grin doubtless because he was waving a bottle of coke at us.

up to that point in my life i had yet to do any of the great enwisening things yet; like playing pool with maoris, waking up in a different city to the one you thought you went to bed in, or having a fistfight with the boss. but i was still cluey enough to realise something was seriously wrong here.

yes. strange as it seems...norman rockwell killed christmas for me.


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