I don't remember believing or not believing... I do remember one year when I was probably about nine years old, seeing my mother talking to someone in the backyard on one evening before Christmas that resembled an elf while they were doing something with some wrapped presents... I later realized that it was one of the neighbor's teenaged sons from across the street - he was a bit tall for an elf, come to think of it...
There is only one photo of me with Santa, taken when I was probably 15... I was with a couple of friends from Rainbow Girls, hanging out at the mall and we probably thought it was really funny to get our pictures taken with Santa Claus... I felt kind of stupid afterward, but after reading Morrison's interview above, we were probably not the only adolescents that Santa had to put up with that day...
I had to tell my first Santa Claus "lie" the other day when seven-year-old Seiji said that his friend Troy didn't believe in Santa Claus... I asked him if he believed and he said that he did - sort of... He wanted to know how Santa knew how to read and write Japanese, as some of his gifts from last year were addressed to him in kanji... I told him that Santa Claus has been all over the world and was proficient in many languages... I think he bought it...
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