Eva Vallier, a seventh-grade student of Jenny Zavatsky at Lake Washington Girls Middle School in Seattle, Washington, read and responded to the online YES! Magazine article, “Less Stuff, More Heart: 5 Gifts On a New Dad’s Christmas List,” by Christopher Zumski Finke. My mom tells me that the children were not allowed to go to school and that the adults had their cars, their jobs, and their houses taken away from them. Then my mom tells me that my grandma spent three years of her childhood living that life. “I was pretty young, so I don’t really remember much,” my grandma tells us in a tenuous voice.