The Great Dying: The 1918 Influenza Epidemic will give a more accurate picture of this diease. My father-in-law had some memories. I have seen a letter written by someone who was warned by a fortune teller that she would die if she did not leave town (no surprise there). She did. I have read an account of a four-year-old singing THE WEXFORD GIRL complete knocking down with a stick and dragging around by the hair and announcing, "That's the best I ever sung it." A child's ability to comprehend all sorts of painful topics is totally underestimated.

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