Nothing in this life is free... Everything has a price or a consequence—an idea that really stuck with me after reading the story. Poor children... a bag of candy as a reward for their parents’ lives.

I don’t know about everyone else, but when I was a kid, I was taught not to take candy from strangers. “Be very careful about taking candy from strangers—they might poke your eyes out,” my mother used to say, and as an obedient child, of course I was terrified of eye-pickers... Well, that’s just a memory that came to mind after reading your story.

Good luck.