Poor old Virginia

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Date: 10 January 2006 19:15:21

The Spouse™ and I were discussing the other day our memories of Christmas. I was told that there was no Father Christmas, or at least it was all heavily hinted ("Father Christmas needs you to go to bed now because I, er he, is tired and wants to go to sleep early"). He was not disillusioned until he was quite old, and had even told friends at school that "no, it's true, he really came and left presents!".

My parents also told me God didn't exist, and I'm actually quite grateful they didn't try what, for them, were fairy tales. But I'm sure there were lots of really sad children in my class whose psyches I messed up forever. These days the Daily Mail would have sponsored a law suit against my parents...