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Feb 2023
20m 53s

273. David asks: What if Candy the Kid a...

Eric O'Keeffe / Starglow Media
About this episode

When Candy the Kid’s parents ask him to stop his wandering ways and work for them, he runs away, but he ends up trapped on Mars!

Lessons include: It can be hard to say how we feel, but your loved ones will always listen; connection and curiosity guide us through conflict better than isolation and punishment.

This episode refers to the Time Vortex, a strange phenomenon that displaced many characters in What If World. You can listen to this story as a stand alone, but to hear more about the Time Vortex, you can listen to episodes 267, 268, and 272 first.

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