A conversation between Supervixen and SweetFaceBoy, aged 11.
"I don't know about Santa Claus," he said.
"How so?"
"It all just doesn't add up."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean, how does he get all the presents and know where they go and deliver them all in one night. It doesn't seem possible."
"A lot of things happen that at first don't seem
possible. Isn't it amazing that we can send Apollo 11men to walk on the moon? That a caterpillar can turn in to a butterfly? That children are born? There are things every day that don't seem possible that happen anyway."
"Do you believe in Santa?"
"I do. Let me ask you, do you feel better believing or not believing?"
"Believing."
"There you go."
"Thanks Mom."