Dear Santa â Please bring me a gas-powered plane like the one on the back of Boys Life Magazine. Itâs OK if I donât get anything else. I did lose the football I got last year, and battery acid ruined my Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea submarine but I really, really want that airplane.
Santa never personally responded. Neither did my parents. The response came on Christmas morning when âthe packageâ wasnât an airplane. It was actually a Spirograph set that lasted me for years but that wasnât the point in 1966. I really wanted that plane.