CHILD07.DOC

DEAR SANTA

I know that your busy this time of the year, your big day is coming up and everybody is counting on you to come through. I don't envy you, talk about pressure.

I just wanted to touch base with you about something for myself. I know that everybody wants something and everyone is claiming that they have been good. I'm not sure that this is true, a lot of pain has been caused by someone.

Anyway thats not my call, about who gets what. This letter is about something for me.

This gift can wait until after the Christmas rush, in fact I would like it in the spring. The spring is nice, there is a sense of renewal.

Getting back to my request. What I need is my childhood. Somehow growing up hungry, very poor and without my dad, I skipped my childhood.

Now as I rush in upon fifty, I realize what I missed. My children seem to be having a good one and I grateful for that. However I think that I have to go back and recover mine.

The reason that I think this is very important is that a lot of my current problems are related to the crummy childhood of mine.

If you can give such marvelous toys like barbies, GI Joe's and CD's, surely a small item like my childhood is not asking too much.

On the first day of spring, I will leave out cookies and milk.

Regards,

Michael R. McLean