She absolutely sleighing them.
An eight-year-old girl in Arizona felt so betrayed when she learned the truth about Santa Claus that she wrote her parents an angry letter calling them “dream breakers” and “backstabbers.” Her furious correspondence is currently blowing up on Redditalthough some skeptics wondered if, like Kris Kringle himself, it might be too good to be true.
“Although it was heartbreaking to see her pain, we couldn’t help but smile at the tenderness and sweetness in her writing,” said the disillusioned girl’s father, Derek Rogers. Newsweek.
“PS Never forgive a liar and a backstabber,” the letter read. Reddit/u/ITookYourGP
The Gilbert resident said he and his wife had always made an effort to keep the Santa myth alive for the sake of their daughter.
“Our daughter had an Elf on the Shelf who was a friendly elf and a Christmas friend,” Rogers said. “She wrote letters to Santa, and sometimes he even wrote back.”
Their Christmas cover story unraveled last week, however, when a boy at her school told her that neither Saint Nick nor the often…Agita-inducing Elf on the Shelf were real.
“(He said) the only people who still believe that are me and my family,” the devastated boy demanded, Rogers said. ‘Mommy, daddy… is it true? Does Santa Claus really exist?”
“Although it was heartbreaking to see her pain, we couldn’t help but smile at the tenderness and sweetness in her writing,” said the disillusioned girl’s father, Derek Rogers. Reddit/u/ITookYourGP
That’s when they decided to take a closer look at the Christmas myth. And while Rogers thought they had done a good job clearing the air, he discovered that wasn’t the case after his daughter burst into tears and exclaimed, “You lied to me for eight years?!”
When they tried to comfort the distraught child, she told them, “I have to say some things that might not be nice, and I don’t want to say them out loud.” She then stomped off to their home office and returned with the aforementioned note, which read:
“I could say… you lied to me! I will hate you. I don’t know why that elf thing is here either. Maybe from Aspen before she lost her magic. You broke my heart. (She found an Elf on the Shelf accessory set in the office.) You are a love crusher and a dream crusher. PS Never forgive a liar and a backstabber.”
Redditors were both amused and charmed by the letter shared in two parts by a family friend.
“Villain origin story,” said one, while another wrote, “I need someone to transcribe this.”
A third said: “Well… I applaud the children’s ability to express their big negative emotions safely. It’s cute. And I hope the child will grow up to be creative and artistic and maybe a little forgiving of his parents who crushed her dreams.”
“Please save this to show them when they grow up,” one fan suggested, to which a poster claiming to be the girl’s parent replied, “I’m going to laminate it for her wedding.”
However, some thought the letter was forged due to the internet power, with one skeptic wondering: ‘Do eight-year-olds really say ‘I don’t know?’ I always assume these were written by adults.”
Another called the correspondence “incredibly fake.”
The girl’s alleged parent dismissed the haters, writing in the comments: “Always doubters, it’s the internet. I can’t blame them.”
Rogers said that while his daughter was initially “angry” at them for the betrayal for a while, she has since returned to her “cheerful” self and now sees the holidays in a new light.
“She even enjoys helping wrap presents, put them under the tree and continue the Christmas spirit,” he said. “She started moving the Elf on the Shelf herself and giggled as we discovered the new places he appeared in the house.”
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