By Aaron Hu and Ellie Evergreen
In 1985 I wrote to Santa expressing my sincere desire for an interview. I received a letter from Santa expressing his desire not to grant one. Over the next several years I wrote more letters repeating my request and received my replies including one that let me know how close I was from winding up on the naughty list.
That letter immediately stopped my asking Santa for an interview until 1989, when I received a letter from Santa that was quite different from the rest. This Santa letter was to inform me that Santa had changed his mind and would consent to an interview provided I allow him to read and approve any articles or writings done on the interview. I was thrilled.
As I packed for the North Pole I kept thinking how lucky I was to be the first person to ever interview this wonderful man. I finished loading my suitcase and carried it to the living room. I was just about to phone for a cab when I heard noise coming from my kitchen. Scared and suspicious, I crept to the kitchen door.
To my surprise, when I opened the door, there, standing in my kitchen with a mug in one hand and a package of hot cocoa in the other, was the man himself. For a moment, I was too shocked to speak. Santa told me to close my mouth before I let a fly in. These are the official notes taken during my visit with this jolly man in the red suit.
I asked Santa if the hot chocolate that I made him was okay. He replied that while it had taken him almost ten years to get used to, he had found one or two brands of instant cocoa that he enjoyed. This wasn’t one of them. He gave me a list of the best instant hot chocolate brands on the market, none of which I recognized.
I then asked Santa if he was ready, he sat at my kitchen table with his hot chocolate, and we began. My first question was if he was a man or an elf. Yes, he replied. I knew that meant not to ask again. My next question was how he found flying reindeer. Santa explained that it was borne of necessity.
Christmas spirit is more powerful than you can imagine, said Santa ClausThis unique visitor of mine went on to explain that he was in a bind because the world had become too big and he had no way to reach all the children. He said that the kids had faith in him and they knew that he would make it. He was racing down a mountainside just before dawn. He knew he could not make it before daylight and the kids were going to be disappointed but he also knew that he had to try.
That was the moment, he said, when the reindeer suddenly lifted off the ground and started flying faster than they could ever have run. He did not understand the mechanics of it, he just knew that because he was willing to try in the face of absolute failure. It was an act of faith in the children whose Christmas spirit is more powerful than you can imagine. That, he said, is a kind of magic that will never die.
I asked him what it was like to live at the North Pole. He said it was cold. I asked him how he made millions of toys in only a year. He replied that he did not make millions of toy. He personally only made about nineteen thousand. The elves, he said, made the rest.
The last question I was allowed to ask was why he dedicated his life to bring toys to the children of the world. He said, and this is paraphrased, that any child is worth that and much more. He said it was the very least that he could do.
He said that if everyone would have just a little bit of the child they were in them when they were older, that the world would be a much nicer place in which to live and there would be no need for Santa Clause.
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