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PENNIES FOR CANDLES
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by Jean Smidt, West Milford, New Jersey
When I was a child, during the Great Depression, my mother sent me to the store to buy candles because our electricity had been turned off.
I gave the clerk in the store my pennies for the candles, and he sarcastically said, “Didn’t pay the electric bill?”
I held my head up high and replied, “Of course we did, but we want to have dinner by candlelight tonight.”
I still laugh when I recall our “candlelight” dinner and the look on the clerk’s face after my retort.
We didn’t have much money, but we had pride.
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