She was adorable.  Trying with all her might to keep up with her four older siblings.  Full of smiles.  Jabbering.  And then she fell sick and in a blink of an eye, she is gone.  A statistic.  Malaria claimed one more life.  It's still a bigger killer than AIDS.  The very young and the very old are the most vulnerable.  

For this poor family who live just down the street from us, the light went out.  Mom was home alone with the kids.  Dad had found a temporary job that took him out of town for a period of time.  But now he has to rush back home and take charge of plans to bury his precious youngest. It's all so sad.  Death is very real out here on the Dark Side of the Moon.