We also decided we would end the rationing of precious commodities like sugar. All our lives we’d been told how much sugar we could use—you don’t need that much sugar in that rice, boy!—but now we bought big bags of Domino sugar and I would pour and pour that fine white sugar until I decided the Kool-Aid was sweet enough. And all my sister said was Ooh boy that’s sweet! Never You used up all my sugar. It was our sugar now and we could get more.
