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"With Easter coming up, I can&amp;#x27;t help but think about chocolate bunnies and Cadbury eggs and jelly beans (and my personal favorite, which we can no longer eat thanks to Alex&amp;#x27;s peanut allergy: Reeces peanut butter eggs). In other words, sugar. Apart from Halloween and Easter, my sisters and I didn&amp;#x27;t grow up eating much candy. My dad was pretty strict about it, actually (my grandfather used to give us bags of M&amp;amp;Ms pretty much every time we saw him and my dad put a stop to that). I used to think he was so mean but here&amp;#x27;s the funny part...In retrospect, I kind of agree with my him. We don&amp;#x27;t really give Alex sugar. He drinks water and (rice) milk, that&amp;#x27;s it. Prior to his allergy discovery, we did give him the occasional made-for-kids cookie, but not often. We even left a birthday party before the cake part because, well, Alex is hyper enough and his belly is huge and we just didn&amp;#x27;t want to go down that road. Of course Alex screamed &amp;quot;cake, cake, cake&amp;quot; the entire ride home and we felt awful. Then again, we now know that he can&amp;#x27;t eat cake or cookies or ice cream anyway so I guess it makes that argument a little easier. (And, before you think I&amp;#x27;m trying to be mother-of-the-year, Alex did eat things like french fries and ketchup and bagels with &amp;quot;chee cheese&amp;quot; and chicken nuggets...AND I&amp;#x27;ve already learned to make him an egg, dairy and oat free cake that is FULL of sugar....) When I was first diagnosed someone sent me a long letter saying that sugar was the reason I had cancer. I hated that letter. And I don&amp;#x27;t think that&amp;#x27;s why I have cancer. I don&amp;#x27;t even like sweets that much! But when you start raising a kid you begin to look at food&amp;amp;#8212;and what you put in their bellies&amp;amp;#8212;in a whole new light. And you can&amp;#x27;t help but wonder.... Do you eat a ton of sugar? Do you let your kids eat it? What will be in your Easter baskets on Sunday? (We got Alex a set of plastic golf clubs instead of a candy...). And, for kicks, what&amp;#x27;s your favorite candy of all time? (Mine would have to be Peanut Chews....)"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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