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2nd November 2021
01:02pm GMT

"It was first thing in the morning, really early and I just replied 'no he doesn't."
"I thought she had already worked it out and didn't want to lie."
"She then had a full-on meltdown and couldn't believe he wasn't real," she shared.
She tried to explain the original story about Santa but her daughter was heartbroken.
The mum asked was her daughter too young to know the truth?
She added, "If I had time to think I would have probably come with a good excuse."
One mum responded, "I guess she's the age that kids start to work it out (though the young end) but you didn't need to blurt it out, did you?"
"Time to let her in on the real secret which is that the grown-ups make the magic for the little ones."
"Kids are brutal and once one child blurts it to the class, the cat is out of the bag," another wrote.
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