Each year as Christmas approaches, young children sit at the table, pull out their favorite pens and pencils, and write a heartfelt letter to Santa to share their wishes and dreams for December 25.
Some have many requests to make; ask for toys and games and shiny new gadgets, while others may have more pressing issues to discuss.
A child’s sweet letter to Santa Claus recently went viral on social media, and his words have broken the hearts of thousands.
The boy, known only as Will, wrote his post as part of the Operation USPS Santa
in America and it seems all he wants for Christmas is to be loved the way he is.
Wills’ letter reads, “Dear Santa, do you support the LGBTQ community?
And if you can talk to God, can you tell him that I love him and [ask] if he likes me to be gay
“Thank you. With love, Will.
His post was shared on Twitter by a named user Nancy, who captioned his post: “This letter to Santa Claus broke my heart.”
His tweet went viral, garnering over 200,000 likes and over 22,000 retweets.
One person replied, “Being a queer kid is very difficult. I hope this child knows that God loves him no matter what.
Another said, “Okay, I’m going to cry.”
It hurts so much to my heart. Hope Will and all the other little LGBTQ + babies know (and are being told) that they are so, so loved, ”wrote a third.
Other users couldn’t help but share more letters from Operation Santa and they were just as devastating.
A boy named Almir wrote about his mother’s death from cervical cancer and described how difficult it was for his whole family.
He asked Santa to help his loved ones this Christmas and also asked for a coat and gloves as the weather was getting colder.
A girl named Kayla asked Santa to bring a bed for her parents as they live in a one bedroom apartment and her parents sleep on a sofa.
He said he didn’t want them to wake up with “back pain” anymore because his father worked “a lot” and “the pain stresses him out”.
Several other children begged Santa to help them with money for household bills while their moms and dads struggled, and a boy named Julian asked them if they could have WIFI so that he can study at home and his father can “ search for notes. of his brother ‘online.
Quick, someone hands us the handkerchiefs, these letters are too much for us!
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