When he was born, the room filled with a golden light bright enough to blind someone. Divinely bright. The onlookers never spoke of it as it was too sensitive of a topic. The golden boy was not to be talked about. The father made sure of that. The mother wept for hours and hours because she did not want to let her precious child go. But sometimes what is best for the world is not what is best for you. When they took the golden baby, the mother could no longer bear to live. She asked the father to extinguish her pain. And because he loved her more than anything else in the world, he did.