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I’ve been bothered by a terrible thought this week: 2021 might be the last year that the five-year-old Egg believes in Santa.

Next Christmas she will be six and most children lose their belief in the omnipresent old man in the red suit somewhere between four and seven. Some people feel bad about telling their trusting offspring a lie. Not me and I certainly don’t plan to stop now. For the rest of December, I will lie, lie, lie, because if we lose Santa next year, he’s gone forever. Discussions between Egg and I are littered with mythical references to...

Discussions between Egg and I are littered with mythical references to Santa, the Easter Bunny, clean government, a competent police force and eternal love. After a lot of excitement, I will take Egg to the Rosebank Gautrain station, where she will have to board the “Hogwarts Express”.We will go to Pretoria, drink a milkshake and come back to Johannesburg, because in our Muggle world Hogwarts doesn’t really exist and I will never own a flying Ford Anglia, no matter how desperately I desire one every morning when I sit in traffic.

 

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