When Wishes Come True by Peggy Jaeger

So here’s a fact: I’m a girl.

Shocker, right?

LOL.

If you are a toy connoisseur you recognize this ornament



as Rock'Em Sock'Em Robots, a very popular toy in the 1960s. When I was five years old I wanted this toy. Bad! I put it on my list to Santa three years running from 1965-68. When the third Christmas morning without finding it under the tree occurred, my mother said, with a cigarette in one hand, a cup of black coffee in the other, and her hair in pink rollers, "That toy is for boys. Santa doe...