A 10-year-old girl has expressed her devastation over learning the truth about Santa.
In a series of furious notes pushed under her parents' door Belle Adams, of Maryland in the US, told her mother and father she can not believe them anymore and that their Christmas revelation "broke my heart".
The last of her four notes features a drawing of a raised middle finger which caused the couple to lose their "ever loving s***", according to Belle's mother's post to Facebook.
"The time has finally come," Nicki Adams wrote of the ordeal. "Belle asked point blank about Santa and she's been asking every day.
"So we were truthful and she may never speak to us again......especially when we lost our ever loving s*** at the pictures on the right that she slid under the door to us.....?#?dontlaugh?."