My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

This originally appeared at The Irresponsible Reader, which normally features better writing than this.
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If you don't like people, they can't hurt you. Almost-8-year-olds who are often described as “different” learn that very quickly.

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She used to write letters to Santa every Christmas, not just wish lists but whole letters. They weren't very much about Christmas, mainly about politics. Because Elsa mostly felt that Santa wasn't involving himself enough in social questions, and believed he needed to be informed about that, in the midst of the floods of greedy letters that she knew he must be receiving from all the other children every year. Someone had to take a bit of responsibility.