Dear Santa,
I haven’t written letters to you for a very long time. In the past few years, my priorities have changed a lot! I no longer yearn for that beautiful little baby doll to hold & play with & pretend she is real for I have raised 3 beautiful children of my own.
I no longer wish for a car because I have a new car now & a beautiful new home. I used to wish to find the love of my life but since then I've been blessed with 2 husbands that loved me unconditionally. My first husband came 20 years ago. We had a beautiful home, 3 wonderful children & a good life together but unforeseen things happened & I lost him 5 years ago.
Since then, I got another wish. I found true love again and I remarried. After all of that happened, my wish was to have my kids back because losing their dad was almost more than they could bear & watching their mom try to find who she was without him was very hard for them & for 4 years I didn’t have much of a relationship with them. That’s when my wish changed again. I wished for my family back & last year that happened!
This Thanksgiving was the 1st Thanksgiving I've ever had at my own house & all of my children were there & are all coming back for Christmas! So you see Santa, there just isn’t anything in this world that could fill my heart any more than it already is. You always gave me hope when I was a little girl, you gave me something to believe in & I've clung to that & it's carried me through my life.
You don’t realize how much hope & inspiration you give children all over the world & it stays with them their entire life! This year, Santa, my wish is that YOU have everything you wish for. I'm sure you'll wish for the sick to be healed, the lonely to find happiness & for all to find the hope we had when we were little. I hope your wishes all come true because you've always given us hope & something to believe in!
All my love,
Beverly Long
The little girl who’s dreams are still coming true….