So... Why didn't you just take the money? I'm confused. Like you said, you could have sent your kids to college, but instead you chose to deny them that?
When I founded OpenDomain, I wanted to create my own project where I "paid it forward".
If I sold a domain, I felt I would be selling out the original idea.
I know google can afford it - but I did not know it was Google when the broker called me. If i sold it to a squatter, then we would not have the service of Schema.org today