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I'm slightly embarrassed. I actually thought I had been around 6 or 7 years old, but now found out that I had been nine. I found it out by "altruistically" wishing for world peace, which the all-powerful Santa should have been able to provide. I only got a game called Game of Peace (Looking it up right now, I found out that it was published in 1993, so I can't have been younger than 9 at the time). That's when I definitely stopped believing (Although my parents could have probably convinced me that Santa existed, but wasn't all-powerful, if they had bothered).
"Sorry kid, what can I tell ya? More people wanted war for Christmas. Ho, Ho, Ho!"
Or they could have taken a standard work on theodicy and replaced "God" with "Santa", to explain why a benevolent and all-powerful Santa would not grant prayers (I mean, wishes) for world peace.
Christian apologetics actually tend to translate extremely well into Santa apologetics.
You'd think that somebody might have written to him about that by now, wouldn't you? I didn't start asking for world peace until well after I stopped believing in Santa (and possibly also after I stopped believing in God; in any case, I was asking ironically).