The Kind of Friends We Used to Be
“Yesterday, the last day of school before the holidays, Gretchen Humboldt argued that his equation was incorrect, and he finally had to agree with her. He had used the Earth’s circumference—24,901.55 miles—as the distance that Santa Claus had to fly in twenty-four hours, but as Gretchen noted, Santa doesn’t fly in a straight line around the globe. He goes north and south and all over the place. So now Petey is trying different ways of figuring out the actual distance Santa Claus flies on Christm...as Eve.
He and Gretchen are secret Santa believers, and they have spent much of the last two weeks of school by the swings, whispering facts to each other about reindeer, the North Pole, and the true identity of Mrs. Claus. Other kids started to tease them about being boyfriend and girlfriend, and Petey and Gretchen didn’t argue with them. They knew it was better to be thought a romantic item than babies who still believed that a jolly old elf with a bag of toys slid down their chimneys every December 24.MoreLess
He and Gretchen are secret Santa believers, and they have spent much of the last two weeks of school by the swings, whispering facts to each other about reindeer, the North Pole, and the true identity of Mrs. Claus. Other kids started to tease them about being boyfriend and girlfriend, and Petey and Gretchen didn’t argue with them. They knew it was better to be thought a romantic item than babies who still believed that a jolly old elf with a bag of toys slid down their chimneys every December 24.MoreLess
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