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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Buttercup" data-source="post: 2773101" data-attributes="member: 990"><p>For Christmas when I was 4, my day care teacher got me a blue flashlight.  I still think of it as one of the best presents I have ever received.  You see, my father had died about 8 months before, and lots of wretched things had happened to me in the aftermath, with the result that I was having regular nightmares.  The flashlight gave me the power to chase the dark away.  Naturally, my 4 year old brain didn't think of it quite that way, but that's how I used it.  I carried that flashlight with me everywhere.  When I started kindergarten, I had to leave it at home, but I still took it to bed with me every night until I was about 7.</p></blockquote><p></p>