# Santa Claus: To Perpetuate the Tale to Children or Not?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 18, 2007, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/santa-claus-to-perpetuate-the-tale-to-children-or-not/392666 "2007-02-18T01:55:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/santa-claus-to-perpetuate-the-tale-to-children-or-not/392666/18 "2007-02-18T07:20:11Z")

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I would like to seriously dispute the premise of this thread.

Santa Claus, and the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy—they _are_ real. I know, because when I was a kid, I got the goodies in my stocking, and the hidden candy eggs, and the money under my pillow.

What I became aware of when I got older was, **not** that Santa Claus wasn’t real, but that **Santa Claus was really Dad and Mom**. Santa Claus didn’t stop existing. I just had a better understanding of who Santa Claus really was. Santa Claus was someone who loved me enough that he not only wanted to give me presents and goodies, he wanted to make it happen in a fun and exciting and magical way. And that, I insist, is the absolute truth.

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> No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

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