Assignment- 4 Caili Harris

At the age of seven, my friends told me the most horrifying truth. Santa Claus does not exist! Of course, I didn’t believe them.  Santa Claus is the man who flies around the earth in one night. Right?

Before I continue, I know that many of you are skimming the page, and the fact that I have yet to say my belief was debunked or I questioned the existence of Santa may concern you. Yes, I do know Santa Claus does not exist, neither does the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, or the Great Pumpkin. But, KEEP READING!

I brushed off the whole Santa Claus thing, but at age eight a craze hit our school. Fairies. Every kid would write to their “fairy” each night and in the morning, they would write back. And if you were lucky, a piece of candy would be there as well. For about three months, my mother kept up the charade, until I asked her, ”Mom, Lauren says that my fairy is you. Is that true?” My mom replied with, ”Do you want to know the truth?” to which I answered,”uuuuuuuggggghhhhhh.”

Shortly after learning about the inexistence of fairies, I went to the dentist office to have a tooth removed. In the car with my freshly pulled tooth, I sat with excitement of the Tooth… I thought for a second. Tooth Fairy! After that I figured out that since fairies aren’t real, Santa’s not real! But at least the Easter Bunny still exists (I thought for another year). I asked my mom, ”The tooth fairy and Santa aren’t real, are they?” To which my mother replied, ”Do you want to know or keep believing?” I decided in the end to keep “believing” for the quarter under my pillow that night.