Dear Santa

“Dear Santa,
This year for Christmas I want bad things to stop happening to my family. I want my Mama to be able to go to the grocery store without crying. I don’t want to not have a house like some other people who are homeless and don’t have money. I don’t want that man who took our money to get any presents. I want to quit feeling like something bad is going to happen any day and I want snow for Christmas. You can’t do any of this I know, but I tell God everyday. I am writing you so you won’t stop at my house and you can spend time with the other children who lost their homes in Katrina.
Love,
[Goro], almost 8 years old”