my mom told me Santa Claus blew his brains out when I was nine. Was depressed because he could not get off the hooch.
Dad had disappeared that Christmas on a month long drunk so we didn’t have much money coming in. Mama was only making $.80 an hour..
I was 6 when I asked my parents, on Christmas Eve, when Santa’s coming. They said: “There ain’t no Santa. Go to your room.”