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I was probably nine or ten the first time I heard there was no Santa Claus.

I was Santa Claus in first year of primary school, our elementary's school play, because I had most panache, that was probably why. I was 5.

Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity.

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.

For a time, I believed not in God nor Santa Claus, but in mermaids. They seemed as logical and possible to me as the brittle twig of a seahorse in the zoo aquarium or the skates lugged up on the lines of cursing Sunday fishermen - skates the shape of old pillowslips with the full, coy lips of women.

I always believed in Jesus and God as a little boy.

Santa was a fake.

When I was a kid, I believed in Santa Claus. But it was very tough because in the Dominican... there are not a lot of rich people there.