Callie McCall was forced to step in as the family’s breadwinner after her husband, Harry, died of a heart attack while she was pregnant with twins, Bill and Sam. Before the twins, Callie and Harry had two other kids, Peter and Christian, who were four and six years old when Harry died,
Harry and Callie lived in a little town in the countryside and ran a small farm to feed their children. After Henry passed away, there was one lesser hand at work but more mouths to feed. Unfortunately, Callie’s work alone was insufficient to keep them afloat. In fact, they had so little money that they couldn’t even buy enough groceries sometimes. One day, Callie was shopping with her children at a neighboring supermarket when Peter approached her with a box of chocolates. “Mommy, mommy!” he cried. “Can we have these? I want to get two boxes. Bill and Sam can share one, and Peter and I can have the other!” “Jesus! Why would someone send me so much money?” she wondered.
