dear santa

dear mr. claus,

i know i didn’t write you this year (and since i’ve been pretty young) and i must admit it’s been because my faith in you has dwindled. i apologize very much for this inattention on my part, and hope you understand. maybe you’ve gone through this before.

anyway, i really appreciate what i got this year, but i’d like to trade it. material possessions are all well and good, and i love playing abalone, but perhaps i could do a trade? i’d really like the christmas spirit to return to my family year round. i think that would be lovely. it’s only two days after christmas and everybody is angry already.

and if you can’t return christmas spirit, can you at least make sure my mother doesn’t leave? i don’t much care if she leaves (so i guess i’m a bad person) but i watched my aunt walk away almost 13 years ago and she took my cousins. i don’t want to see that happen again, because this time it’s my mom and this time she will walk away with my brother.

sincerely,
teneal ann.