WHEN YOU FIND OUT SANTA'S NOT REAL

a classical music internet micro-celebrity's** musings on Christmas, Hannukah, and "He Was Despised"

I found out that Santa Claus wasn’t real when I was 7. My best friend, Allyson, told me. I had a bit of what in retrospect was an unusual religious upbringing: we celebrated everything pretty half-assedly. My mother came from a pretty religious Presbyterian family in Western Pennsylvania. She lived in a trailer until she was a teenager, but somehow ende…