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{{quote|There were three beds in here! Each with a frame and a mattress! A ''mattress''! Was one of these yours???|''[[Vigor Mortis]]''}}
To someone who has had a rough life, even the simple things are a big deal. The [[Woobie]], the [[Butt Monkey]], the [[Chew Toy]], and other downtrodden characters tend to [[An Aesop|know better]] than to take them for granted.
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* In ''[[Torchwood: Miracle Day]]'', Oswald Danes, a convicted kiddy rapist/murderer released from death row, is seen filling a trash bag with food from a buffet. When questioned, he makes a good point about how he'll be unable to find work, and must collect food whenever he can.
* In ''[[The Winds of War and War and Remembrance|Winds of War/War and Remembrance]]'' a train headed on the [[Deadly Euphemism|Transport to the East]] stopped at a Polish station. At that moment someone throws a sack of apples aboard and all the prisoners are pitifully grateful, having had no food and little water. In the book it was an "unknown benefactor". In the miniseries, a poor Polish farmer hefting a sack [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|shoves his way past the SS guards and puts it on boad.]] One of the prisoners asks, "Who are you" and receives the reply, [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|"A Christian."]]
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* Vita from ''[[Vigor Mortis]]'' regards even having a proper amount of food each day as a luxury she doesn't deserve (in part because she is getting it and most of her family isn't). Her teammates in the Hunter's guild thought her astonishment at things like how much food she was getting was funny. After one of them walked with her while she was making a delivery to her family, and saw [[Horrible Housing|where she lived before using the guild lodging]], that teammate apologized.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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