The Bitter Sugar
Language: en
"The candy is so bitter." My daughter nestled in my arms, her voice tiny. I looked down at her. She had just come back from preschool, and her eyelids were already drooping. "What candy?" "The teacher gave it to me." She yawned, "If I eat it, I can go to sleep." I froze for a moment. "Do they give it to you every day?" No answer. She was already asleep. A three-year-old child, falling asleep in the car at four in the afternoon. At the time, I just thought she was tired.