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[Marp]

The Spanish flu was most virulent between 1918 and 1920. I don't know why but recently whenever I hear anything about the Spanish flu it strikes me that my grandmother would have been 13 when it started. My dad would have been two.

Kind of moves the Spanish flu pandemic from history to relatable.

[Lipstickdiva]

As an aside, I didn't realize until recently that the Spanish Flu didn't start in Spain either.   It began in China.  

[Goldenmoher]

My grandmother died in the Spanish flu epidemic. She was in her 30's and pregnant with her 4th child who was stillborn. My mother was 6 and had 2 younger brothers. I have thought of her a lot during the pandemic. 

[millieshops]

@Marpnever even thought about it before, but my parents didn't even know each other yet in 2018.  My father was 18, my mother 13 -   they lived in different towns. Cars?  Who had a car in 2018?

[Allegheny]

A few years back when my husband was researching his family's genealogy we visited some very old cemetaries.  It was noticeable the number of deaths during those years, particularly among very young children.

I have read that one third of the worlds' population were infected with the Spanish Flu with 20 to 50 million deaths.   Just horrible.

[Diva on The Q]

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@millieshops wrote:

@Marpnever even thought about it before, but my parents didn't even know each other yet in 2018.  My father was 18, my mother 13 -   they lived in different towns. Cars?  Who had a car in 2018?

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@millieshops: I'm sure you mean 1918 (???)  

[millieshops]

@Diva on The Qlol   of course I did!  Thank you for letting me laugh at myself.

That's what I get for using Spellcheck instead of doing my own proofreading.

[Diva on The Q]

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@millieshops wrote:

@Diva on The Qlol   of course I did!  Thank you for letting me laugh at myself.

That's what I get for using Spellcheck instead of doing my own proofreading.

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@millieshops: 

[Nightowlz]

 

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@millieshops wrote:

@Diva on The Qlol   of course I did!  Thank you for letting me laugh at myself.

That's what I get for using Spellcheck instead of doing my own proofreading.

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@millieshops 

LOL!!! I knew you meant 1918.

[Porcelain]

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@millieshops wrote:

@Marpnever even thought about it before, but my parents didn't even know each other yet in 2018.  My father was 18, my mother 13 -   they lived in different towns. Cars?  Who had a car in 2018?

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We finally meet someone who actually was born yesterday!

(I'm only kidding and have made this same mistake myself and more quite often.)