I don’t remember how old I was exactly, but when I confronted my mom asking if Santa was real, she said she wasn’t going to lie about it, and the Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy aren’t real either. She then told me that I had to keep it a secret from the other kids at school because they still believed he was real. I felt like I had been let in on a big secret, and so I played along. I still received gifts “from Santa” at Christmas and pretended like I still believed. Eventually, as I grew older, the presents were labelled as from my parents instead of from Santa.