When you know Santa Claus with out in true world?

Right from my childhood. My father always tried to let us know the realities of the world. He used to tell what is a legend.what is fiction and what is truth

There is no Santa Clause? Lol. I am forty years old and I think that I probably figured out about Santa not being really there was when I was around eight or nine. I kind of figured it out for myself. He was in all of the shopping malls and I knew then something was up. I guess there is a part of me that still wants to believe in the guy. I do like Christmas a lot.